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SENATE CHAMBER.
Shortly after, I was sitting on the side sofa, in the Senate Chamber, at Washington city, in conversation with Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and Col. Preston. The subject of education came up. Mr. Clay had given us a graphic sketch of his early education in the Slashes of Vir- ginia. Mr. Webster followed with an interesting account of his New Hampshire course of studies, not forgetting the hanging of the scythe on the apple tree for his father. Col. Preston amused us with anec- dotes of his boyish days. As he closed, turning his eye on me, " Where were you educated, Mr. Smith ?" " At Lurgan." "Where is that?" " Lurgan stands at the foot of Bowman's Hill, on the Del- aware River." " I never heard of it before." "See the difference between Northern and Southern men. I have frequently heard of the South Carolina college." Mr. Webster, without the least idea of the character and grade of Lurgan, where nothing had ever been taught but the common rudiments of an English education, joined in with me. The conversation turned upon the ignorance of the South of the literary institutions of the North, and the great importance of a social interchange of addresses by distinguished men at the commencement of colleges, of both North and South. The idea was readily embraced by those distinguished men.
This sketch is designed to encourage my young readers to persevere from youth to old age. We live in a glorious country, whose institu- tions are open to our highest aspirations ; where there can be no priv-
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ileged elasses ; where mind is left free to combat and act upon mind ; where perseverance, integrity, and talents, will surely be rewarded in the end. Our property is not subject to feudal restraints, nor our high places to hereditary entailed successions. All is as free as the air we breathe, to the worthy aspirant. In my early days, there were but few colleges in the land. Many of the distinguished men were compelled to enter upon public and professional life without the advantages of a thorough education. They came from the common schools and were afterward graduated in the colleges of experience. They were common-sense, practical men, with minds that made great men of them in despite of their defeetive early education. I do not wish to be understood, here or elsewhere in these sketches, as standing opposed to a collegiate education. I only contend that the English foundation must be laid strong and firm, before the superstructure is erected, and if one or the other is to be neglected, let it be that which is the least essential to the success of every-day life. Times have changed in my day. The cause of education has been cherished. Common, select, free, high schools, seminaries and colleges, may be fonnd every where planted over the length and breadth of the land, every facility is now presented to the rising generation, to obtain a first-class education, and all other things being equal, with proper efforts they ought to come up to a much higher standard than their fathers.
ALPHABETICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
PAGE.
ASHBURTON, Lord, .
452
Agricultural Address, 283
Ashburton Treaty, 358
A Small Victory dearly Purchased, 27
A Lawyer's Maneuver,
31
A Dogberry, 32
A Family Difficulty Settled, 33
A Queer Client, ..
41
A Case of Misunderstanding,
48
A Misnomer Casc,
49
BURGESS and Daniel,
90
53
Benton, Thomas II., ..
188
Buckwheat-Straw Principle, 333
Buchanan, James,.
191
Bigger, Samuel, Gov.
349
Beef Case, Jones and Harper,. 11
An Early Legislature in Indiana, .. 76 Bradburn, Dr. John, Trial for Mur- An Electioneering Operation, .. 77 der 15
A Great Hypocrite, .. 78
Anecdote of Gov. Whitcomb,. 79
A Challenge Trial, 82
A Brave Indian, 117
A Political Libel Suit,. 120
A Lawyer Fined in Court, 129
An Indian Horse-Race, 170
A Tight Fit, 340
A Fight in the Senate, 341
A Slave Case-Slander, 342
Accidents by Flood and Field, 176
Abstinence, Total,
433
Blarney Stone,.
49
A Goose Case, 23
A Mal-Practice Case, 39
An Infant in Court,. 73
Burgess and M'Duffie,. 101
Berrian, John M'Pherson, 490
A Panther,
333 | Brown, Iliram,
170
A New Mode of Procuring a Sig- nature, 57 A New Mode of Effecting a Recon- ciliation, 88
A Hymn in the Legislature,
335
Allen, William,
589
Archer, William S.
613
Alley, Dodridge, Legislature,.
333
An Anecdote,
A Hero Charged with llog Stealing,
63
A Horse-Thief Catcher,
67
A Political Preacher in a Fix,
68
A Political Jury
72
Byles, Dr., and Jemmy Johnson, ... 60
British Authorities in Court, .. 122 Bridge's Trial and Execution, 178
Bigger and Howard Election,. 349
Bright, Michael G., 369
Bright, Jesse D .. 373
Brown, William J., 366
Boone, Daniel,
468
Beecher, Henry Ward, Rev., 93
Ball-Room Music in Early Times, .. 172
Breach of Marriage Promise,. 29
Adams, John Quincy 280
Bad Consequences of Changing Shirts, 74
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INDEX.
PAGE.
Brown, James T. 129
Blake, James, 587
Boz-Dickens, 597
Brough, John,.
588
Bonaparte, Charles Louis, 590
Bonaparte, Joseph, 590
Beard, John, 583
Brooks, Erastus, 446
Barbour, Lucian, 561
Bell, John,
613
CALHOUN, John C., 245
Choate, Rufus,
235
Conventions, St. Louis, 208
Culbertson Case,
231
Coroner Connery Outdone
69
Conclusive Speech on Canal Bill, 70
Crocket, David, Col.,
105
Carolina, North, Intelligence of, 105
Corwin and Jennifer,
107
Cookman, George G., Rev., 109
Court, Supreme, United States, 137
Court, Supreme, Indiana, 144
Claypool, Newton,
165
Coburn, Henry P.
367
Clay, Henry, 374 Coyner, Martin L., Trial for Murder, 339
Citizens' Meeting,.
113
Clark, Martin G., Judge, 160
Congress, Twentieth,
88
Conner, John,. 174
Conner, William, 174
Crittenden, John J., 600
Close of Caucus,
593
Coe, Isaac, Dr., 587
Cass, Lewis, 538 Cilley and Graves, 598
Carpenter, Willard,
538
Colfax, Schuyler,
604
Corwin, Thomas,
508
Dow, Lorenzo, 98
Dunn, George G., 361
Dodging a Fee,
65
Dog and Damages,
119
Durbin, John P., Rev. 124
Dumont, Jolın, ..
131
Davis, John G.,
496
Distinguished Pioneers, 172
Davis, Edward, Trial for Murder, 337
Dunn, Isaac, ..
173
Davidson, Andrew, Judge., 146
Dewey, Charles, Judge, 145
Doctor Chinn, 12
Davis, John W., 912
Douglass, Stephen A., 534
De Joinville, Prince,
597
Dutch Witness,
335
Dunn, George H.,
164
Dill, James, Gen., 172
ELLSWORTH, Henry L.,
480
Election, Senatorial, 1836,
141
Ewing, John,.
362
Early Indiana, 5
Early Practice, 43
Electioneering Trips,
80
Exciting Scenes in the House,
102
Early Condition of Indiana, .. 116
Early Indiana Lawyers,
117
Early Indiana Preachers, . 98
Election, Senatorial, 1842, 353
Evidence, Circumstantial,
170
Evening with Lord Ashburton
452
Evans, George,
616
FILLMORE, Millard,
547
First Fee,
10
Fuller, Trial and Execution of, 8
First Speech in the Legislature, .... 65
First Speech in Congress, 108
Floy, James, Rev.,
127
Facts for the People-the Other Side of, 298
Fox and Ashburton,. 363
Fugitive Case-John Freeman, 278
First Election of Officers,
85
Frazer, Betty,
28
Fremont, John C.,
571
Franklin's Staff,
269
Fields, Samuel, Trial of, 23
Doctor Burr,
12
Fletcher, Calvin,
582
Fletcher, Calvin, an Anecdote of, ... 54
GREELEY, Horace,.
446
Gales, Joseph,
464
Gaston, Hiram, Trial of,
338
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INDEX.
PAGE.
Gregg, Milton,. 447 Gookins, Judge, 147
Graves and Cilley,. 598
Gurley, Phineas D., Rev., ..
585
IIELLER, Isaac, Trial and Execu- tion of, 261
Hudson, Trial and Execution of,. 55
Horse Thieves, Trial of, 160
Husband and Wife,.
180
Hendricks, William, Gov., 86
Hendricks, John,
367
Herrod, William,.
369
Ilicks, Elias,.
430
Helm, William,
175
Howard, Tilgman A., Gen. 166
Huntington, Elisha M., Judge, 147
IIale, John P.,
544
Holloway, David P., 447
Huntington, Jabez W.,
615
Harrison, Gen., and Tecumseh, 227
Holman, Jesse L., Judge., .. 84
Henderson Celebration,
200
Hager, John,
583
Hour Rule,
596
INDIAN Murders in 1824, 51
Itinerant Methodist Preachers, .. 97
Inauguration of Martin Van Buren, 345
Identity of a Horse, 277
Important Case of Monomania, 628
JACKSON, Gen., and Henry Clay, ... 133
Jennings, Jonathan, Gov.,. 86
Johnson, Jemmy, . 60
John, Jonathan,
174
KENNEDY, Andrew,.
609
Kentucky Practice,
47
Keeping Order in Court,.
25
LANE, Amos,
87
Law, John, .. 36I
Linn, Lewis F., 238
Lockhart, James,
360
Legible Hands,
62
Lane, Ilenry S., 379
Law Practice and Lawyers,. 184
Letter from Henry Clay,
251
Letter to Henry Clay,
252
PAGE. Letter from Joseph Story, 257
Letter from Henry Clay, 260 Letter from Lewis Cass, 257
Letter from A. C. Dodge, Gen., 259 Lagrange Celebration, Tennessee, .. 203
Lawyers of Early Indiana, ..
117
MEMPHIS, Visit to,
200
Mansfield, Lord, 37
Militia System Ended, 44
Monroe's Second Election, 85
MI'Duffie and Bates, 9I
Maguire, Douglass, 366
Milroy, Samuel, Gen.,
480
Marshall, Joseph G.,
166
Morris, Morris,
173
Monroe, Ilugh, Trial for Murder, 21
M'Kinney, John, Judge,
145
M'Carty, Enoch,
163
M'Carty, Jonathan,
163
Musgrove and Martin, Trial of,
277
Mace, Daniel,
612
NEW Assignment,
130
Noble, James, and John C. Calhoun, 101
Noble, Noah, Gov.,
87
Newman, John S.,
132
OWEN, Robert Dale,
370
Outwitting a Sheriff,
28
O'Kane, John, Elder,
586
O'Brian, Michael, ..
9
PIERCE, Franklin, ..
542
Pettit, John,
479
Proffit, George II.,.
359
Preston, William C.,
265
Prejudicial Effects of Evidence,
41
Pathetic Speech Spoiled,
73
Perils of a Congressional Campaign, 80
Prominent Men of Early Indiana, .. 163
Poets of Indiana, 211
Parker, Samuel W., 481
Pennington, Dennis,
394
Personal Sketches,
172
Parke, Benjamin, Judge,
147
Perkins, Samuel E., Judge,
145
Preachers in Early Times,.
98
Polk, James K.,
540
640
INDEX.
PAGE.
RACE Track, Washington, .. 356
Regulator Case on White River,
59
Russey, James L., ..
395
Railroads of Indiana,
421
Railroad, Pacific, Speech, St. Louis, 400
Rives, William C.,.
396
Reed, James G.
393
Ray, James B., Gov., 86
Roach, A. L., Judge,. 146
Rariden, James,
164
Rayner, Kenneth,
614
SMITH, Caleb B.,
408
Southard, Samuel L., 195
Seargent Taddy,
37
Sharp Practice,.
46
State Organization,
84
Sawyer, Trial and Execution of, .. 177
Stopping Reports,.
131
Sample, Samuel C.,
393
Steel, George K.
394
Sang Hoe Case,
13
Slander Case,
19
Smith, Thomas,
611
Smith, Thomas L., Judge,
146
Stuart, William G., Judge,. 146
Sullivan, Jeremiah, Judge,.
145
Speech at Paducah, Ky.,
200
Speech at Memphis,
201
Sketches of Nature,.
449
Sketches of Supreme Judges, ..
145
Sharpe, Ebenezer,
586
Smith, Jeremiah, Judge,
582
TYLER, John,
148
Tippecanoe, Battle of, 227
Teeth in Testimony,
25
Trover for Stealing a Log Chain, ... 62
Tariff Discussion,
90
PAGE.
QUARLES, William,.
338
Telegraph,
413
Traveling the Circuit, .. 168
Thompson, Richard W., 456
Test, John,
86
Test, Charles H., 129
Taney and M'Lane, Judges, 156
Tipton, John,
478
The Author, ..
632
Trial of a Revolutionary Soldier, ... 23
The Times,
525
UNITED STATES Supreme Court, .... 156
VAN BUREN, Martin. 558
Vance, Samuel, C., Capt.,
172
Vawter, John
393
Variety,
35
WRIGHT, Silas,
204
Woodbury, Levi,.
274
Walker, Robert, J., .. 243
Washington's Sword,
269
Weller's Case,
43
Wadsworth, Charles, Rev. 95
Whitcomb, James, Gov., 351
Wright, Governor, and Nicholas
M'Carty,
352
Wallace, David, Gov.,
87
Webster, Daniel,
459
Was it a Fight ?.
335
White, Albert S.,
479
Washington, Bushrod, Judge,. 138
Wright, Gov., and John A. Matson, 352
Wright, Jos. A., Gov., 352
Watts, John, Judge,. 173
Woods, Nicholas, Trial For Murder, 337
Winthrop, Robert C.
615
Wylie, Andrew, Dr.,
585
Yandes, Simon,
396
Young, Alexander, Trial for Mur-
der,
16
Turkey in Court and on the Table .. 161 Youthful Excursion, 443
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