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Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 27
uld not commit to your kind hospitality a more precious life,—adorned, as it is, by transcendent learning, and the purest character. . . . Ever, ever yours, C. S. P. S. Prescott has printed and stereotyped seventy pages of the Conquest of Mexico. The Calderons still linger in Boston, but will soon leave for Spain. To Lord Morpeth. Boston, May 1, 1843. my dear Morpeth,—I have one moment in which to speed this note; which is mainly to announce to you the coming, in the same packet arts. He is a most agreeable and interesting person. To William H. Prescott. Boston, Oct. 27, 1848. my dear Prescott,—I hardly know how to express on paper the delight and instruction with which I have read your work. The Conquest of Mexico, which was published a few days later. Since I first devoured the Waverley novels, I have read nothing by which I have been so entirely entraine;,—sitting at my desk for hours; then trimming my lamp, and still sitting on; and finally, with the b
New Castle, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
t he shall be entitled to the same privileges and immunities as in his own State. If the State to which he goes declines to respect this provision of the Constitution, our Commonwealth should address a reclamation to it, in order to protect its citizen. It is idle to reply that free blacks, natives of South Carolina, are treated to imprisonment and bondage. The Constitution of the United States does not prohibit a State from inflicting injustice upon its own citizens. As the Duke of Newcastle said, with regard to his rotten boroughs, Shall we not do what we will with our own? But a State must not extend its injustice to the citizens of another State. Unfortunately, the poor slave of South Carolina and the free blacks, natives of that State, are citizens thereof: they owe it allegiance, if a slave can owe allegiance. Of course, they have no other power under heaven, from whom to invoke protection. But the free negro, born in Massachusetts and still retaining his domicile the
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
dall, tried for teaching colored children, in which Judge Daggett instructed the jury that persons of their race are not citizens, under the Constitution of the United States; but the point was not passed upon in the State Court of Errors. 10 Connecticut R., 339. I remember very well. I think it was at nisi prius, either in summing up to the jury or in the course of the ex tempore rulings of a trial. Of course, it is but the ruling of a single judge, in haste, without deliberation and without consultation with his brethren. And this judge, too, is a State judge; not one of the justices of the United States, whose province it is to pass on questions of constitutional law. It might be added that Daggett, though Chief Justice of Connecticut, and Professor of Law in Yale College, is far from an accurate lawyer. When this judgment of Daggett was first promulgated, it excited much sensation and ridicule. It was proposed to carry the question to Washington, as one under the Constitu
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
and the deep researches of Hargrave, never equalled by an English judge, are rivalled on the American bench. Chancellor Kent seems to have been born with those eminent judicial qualities at which others arrive only by the experience of years. Longa aetas Pylium prudentem Nestora fecit. But the Nestor of our profession was prudent before length of days had set their mark upon him. As early as March, 1797, when only thirty-four years of age, he was appointed Recorder of the city of New York; and in February, 1798, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. It has been the rare felicity of this jurist to pass his life far from the ignoble strife of the crowd. His days have been counted out in the serene performance of honorable duties, and in the consciousness of doing good. The delights of literature have blended with the happiness of domestic life; and now, while he still stands on this bank and shoal of time, he sees by his side a son, the prop
Preussen (search for this): chapter 27
Howe from the country, which was made in 1832, on account of his support of the Polish cause Greene, who is here now, says you are on the black list of Naples, and doubts if you can find admission there. And will Austria receive the rejected of Prussia? During the last week and more, we have had Lieber here,—also Greene from Rome. Both talk of you with warm affection. Greene is gentle and kind, and remembers well the little feasts with you. He has only a very short leave of absence, and wnd the gentle A.! C. S. To Dr. Lieber he wrote, Sept. 12, 1843:— I have already three times read your beautiful letter of yesterday; and first, as to the Ms. Dr. Lieber's paper on Public Executions, written in German for the King of Prussia. I do not like to ask you to have so long a paper translated expressly for me or my friend. Still, I venture to suggest that you probably cannot promote your views on the subject more effectually than by putting them in the hands of Milnes. H
Havana, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
ealth, and apt to beset those who are free from conjugal and parental interests. But whatever were the elements of this state of discontent and despondency, its existence was a grief to his intimate friends, to whom only he confided it. Some of them, like Dr. Howe, feared that, notwithstanding his general health and vigor, it was the sign of a latent disease, like that which had stricken other members of his family. This was, indeed, a critical period in his career. Cleveland wrote from Havana, April 7, 1843, two months before his death:— With you, too, dear Charley, I sympathize and mourn over your disappointment in the hope you had of getting the place which Mr. Peters has vacated. It would have been a delightful office for you, and I had set my heart upon your obtaining it. I am the worst person in the world to preach courage and perseverance in the time of disappointment; and yet I can see as plainly as any one the need there is of them. . . . For you, it seems to me,
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 27
t's eightieth birthday he wrote: Ten years of happy life have been allotted to this great jurist beyond even the three score and ten, which are the measure of extraordinary length of days. His venerable years are another illustration of the saying of one of the early masters of the law (it is Littleton who speaks, or his commentator, Lord Coke), that there is something in the cultivation of jurisprudence favorable to a protracted life, and that grave judges, by the benign regard of Providence, are sure to be crowned by a green old age. Happy are they, indeed, upon whom Time lets fall the riches of knowledge and experience, and does not withdraw the priceless boon of health and strength! Thrice happy, if the fires of the family hearth still glow with cheerful brightness while loving friends surround it! Such is the fortunate lot of Chancellor Kent. On the 31st of July last he completed his eightieth year. Twenty years before,—on the 31st of July, 1823,—he had ceased to d
Slave (Canada) (search for this): chapter 27
ppear from the following points that Slavery is, on several grounds, distinctly within the jurisdiction of the United States, of which the Free States are a part. It is a national evil, for which to a large extent the nation and all its parts are responsible, and which to a large extent the nation may remove. Nine cases were then stated and enforced, in which the nation had a direct responsibility for Slavery: 1. In the District of Columbia. 2. In the Territories, Florida being a Slave Territory at the time. 3. Continuance of the slave-trade between the States. 4. Admission of new States. 5. Rendition of fugitive slaves. 6. Transportation of slaves from one slaveholding port to another, as in the Creole case. 7. Laws of Slave States affecting the liberty of free colored persons, citizens of, and coming from, Northern States. 8. Capture by Federal troops of negroes held by the Seminole Indians, who were in arms against the United States. 9. Power to amend the Constitution
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 27
may be spared to guide and enlighten the land. We fear some insidious movements in favor of Texas. The South yearns for that immense cantle of territory to carve into great slaveholding States. We shall witness in this Congress an animated contest on this matter. The question of Oregon promises some trouble. . . . I wish that our people and Government would concern themselves with what we have now. Let us fill that with knowledge and virtue and love of one's neighbor; and let England and Russia take the rest,—I care not who. There has been a recent debate in Congress, in which Mr. Charles Ingersoll said he would go to war rather than allow England to occupy Cuba. I say: Take Cuba, Victoria, if you will; banish thence Slavery; lay the foundation of Saxon freedom; build presses and school-houses! What harm can then ensue to us? Mr. Ingersoll proceeded on the plan of preparing for war. He adopts the moral of the old fable of Aesop,—which, you know, I have always thought so pernicio
Longa (Angola) (search for this): chapter 27
the Commentaries less, but the opinions more. We know of nothing in the English books surpassing in merit some of the golden judgments preserved in the volumes of Mr. Johnson. The learning of Eldon is there set forth with the grace of Stowell; and the deep researches of Hargrave, never equalled by an English judge, are rivalled on the American bench. Chancellor Kent seems to have been born with those eminent judicial qualities at which others arrive only by the experience of years. Longa aetas Pylium prudentem Nestora fecit. But the Nestor of our profession was prudent before length of days had set their mark upon him. As early as March, 1797, when only thirty-four years of age, he was appointed Recorder of the city of New York; and in February, 1798, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State. It has been the rare felicity of this jurist to pass his life far from the ignoble strife of the crowd. His days have been counted out in the serene per
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