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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
ve of Massachusetts, for his invention of the sewing machine. This brought me there to argue a motion in that court, but I did not do so as the case was settled. The first important case that I argued in the Supreme Court was in 1857. It was Sutter vs. the United States. Sutter had been fortunate enough to find gold in the raceway of his sawmill near Sacramento in 1849. The case involved the effect of the laws and action of the provincial governors of Mexico in granting titles to very extSutter had been fortunate enough to find gold in the raceway of his sawmill near Sacramento in 1849. The case involved the effect of the laws and action of the provincial governors of Mexico in granting titles to very extended parcels of lands. The rules which should govern the distribution of that land and the validity of titles to such land under our treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo were under discussion in that case. It was a leading case upon those questions and affected the title of real property to the value of many millions. The case brought me somewhat before the people of the Western country, and I have had occasion to argue quite a number of cases since involving questions of Mexican law. This, I belie e
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
planning operations against New Orleans, 359; anecdote of, 374; expression regarding the woman order, 418; intercedes for Weitzel, 466-467; leads expedition against Pontchatoula, 489; on Butler's staff, 891. Stuart, Mary, 986-987. Sturdivant's Battery, reference to, 679. Sturgis, Captain, tribute to, 344. Suffolk, demonstration upon, 621; General Kautz moves from, 640. Sumner, Charles, how elected Senator, 116, 117, 131; letters to Butler concerning New Orleans removal, 552. Sutter vs. the United States, 1007. Swayne, Judge, reference to, 995. T Tabb, Col., Thos., aids Butler in befriending Mrs. Mumford, 444. Taliaferro's Cavalry, reference to, 679. Taney, Chief Justice, issues habeas corpus, 1009. Tarbox, Hon. John K., Butler's congressional Democratic opponent, 926; insurance commissioners of Massachusetts, 975. Taylor, Gen., Richard, commanding in Western Louisiana, 495; reference to, 864. Tenth New York Regiment, 280. Tenth Army Corps embar
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
es, we heard occasionally from Yerba Buena and Sutter's Fort to the north, and from the army and navain Sutter, addressed to him, stating that he (Sutter) was engaged in erecting a saw-mill at Coloma,his trip to the newly-discovered gold-mines at Sutter's Fort. I selected four good soldiers, with Aso was of adobe. These rooms were used by Captain Sutter himself and by his people. He had a black, he hurried down to the fort to report to Captain Sutter his discovery. Captain Sutter himself relr about the room, and look under the bed, when Sutter, fearing that some calamity had befallen the phe revealed his discovery, and laid before Captain Sutter the pellicles of gold he had picked up in All of them struck for higher wages, to which Sutter yielded, until they asked ten dollars a day, wready collected enough money wherewith to hire Sutter's hospital, and to open a store there, in whicCaptain Warner, and I, made another trip up to Sutter's Fort, going also to the newly-discovered min[22 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
he blind-bridle. There was considerable swearing done, but that would not mend the pole. There was no place nearer than Sutter's Fort to repair damages, so we were put to our wits' end. We first sent back a mile or so, and bought a raw-hide. Gatheive hundred dollars a day for the party. Having finished our work on the Cosumnes, we proceeded to Sacramento, where Captain Sutter employed us to connect the survey of Sacramento City, made by Lieutenant Warner, and that of Sutterville, three milesion. Old Sutter's embarcadero became Sacramento City, simply because it was the first point used for unloading boats for Sutter's Fort, just as the site for San Francisco was fixed by the use of Yerba Buena as the hide-landing for the Mission of San time the elections were held, and the convention was assembled at Monterey. Dr. Semple was elected president; and Gwin, Sutter, Halleck, Butler King, Sherwood, Gilbert, Shannon, and others, were members. General Smith took no part in this conventi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
man of a different type for senator, it said: Where lives the man who has more thoroughly proclaimed and vindicated the sentiment of the North during the past winter than Charles Sumner? Even the Atlas, June 12, commended his consistent and unwavering fidelity to freedom. The seizure of a fugitive slave in Boston intensified the agitation in New England. While the Senate was engaged in the discussion of the bill, Anthony Burns was arrested on the evening of May 24, on the claim of one Sutter, a Virginian, and taken to the court house, where he was held by the United States marshal under an armed guard for a hearing before Edward G. Loring, a commissioner. On the evening of the 26th a body of citizens, leaving Faneuil Hall, where an immense meeting had been addressed by Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, F. W. Bird, and John L. Swift, proceeded to the court house, and endeavored to force an entrance. The attempt at a rescue failed; but in the defence, Batchelder, a truckman, on