...lso of severe pain while they were conversing. He expressed to Mr. Schurz the fear that he should not be able to support him by a speech on finance as he had hoped. He conversed at his seat with Mr. Spofford , the librarian, who came to consult him on the authorship of Hargrave's Argument in the Case of James Somersett, a Negro, etc.,—a book with which he had been long familiar. While in the Senate...