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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
our political system. Cobden in his reply, Nov. 7, 1849, agreed with Sumner as to the future union of Canada with the United States. Sumner's Works, vol. XII. pp. 172-175. Such a union was a favorite idea with Sumner through life. Works, vol. XIII. pp, 127-130. North American Review, July-August, 1878; pp. 78-80: A Senator's Fidelity Vindicated, by E. L. Pierce. To John A. Kasson, New Bedford, July 12:— When I tell you that your article on law reform Law Reporter, Boston, June, 1849, pp. 61-80. expounds views which I have long entertained, and which I have urged in conversation and in correspondence if not in published writings, you will understand the feelings of satisfaction with which I read it. I admired the vivid style, the facility of practical illustration, and the complete mastery of the subject which it showed. You have done good service to jurisprudence, and helped discharge the debt which Lord Bacon tells us we owe to our profession, by this able expositio
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
1865 was a member of the convention for the reorganization of the State government. In 1877 he was elected associate justice of the Supreme court and subsequently was re-elected every succeeding six years. In December, 1891, he became chief justice and was re-elected to that position in January, 1898. His patriotic record in war and his distinguished career in peace, as well as his high rank as a jurist, make him one of the prominent historic characters of the State. By his marriage in June, 1849, to Caroline H., daughter of Dr. Thomas E. Powe, Judge McIver has five children living: Eleanor H., Mary H., Thomas P., Edward, and Charlotte H. Robert Sinclair McKay, deceased, for many years leader among the citizens of Greenville, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, but was reared in South Carolina, being brought to this country when two years of age by his parents, Hugh Alexander and Ann (Ferguson) McKay. In youth he served an apprenticeship as a printer, and by private study obtain