This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.

The life of the brilliant Pennsylvania lawyer who was Attorney-General and Secretary of Sate under Buchanan and legal gladiator during the tragic era of Reconstruction.

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Excerpt from Essays and Speeches of Jeremiah S. Black: With a Biographical Sketch The speeches and essays comprised in this book are selections from the most important productions of the author. It has not been without difficulty that some of them were recovered for the purpose. When Judge Black had uttered a speech, or written an essay, he concerned himself no more about it, but left it to find what entertainment it could in the world. He preserved little, and the compiler is indebted to friends in various parts of the country for copies of some of the most famous papers in this volume. He is under obligations peculiarly heavy to Hon. Levi Maish, of York, Pennsylvania, for favors of this kind. The open letters to Vice-President Wilson on the character of Edwin M. Stanton, the letter to Mr. Adams on the character of William H. Seward, and the article entitled "A Great Lawsuit and a Field Fight," are taken from the "Galaxy" magazine. The replies to Mr. Ingersoll, Mr. Boutwell, and Mr. Howe, and the article entitled "The Great Fraud," are copied from the North American Review, in which they originally appeared. The compiler regrets that he is unable to present the great speech in the McCardle case. The original report of this speech was so defective that Judge Black repudiated it altogether, and had dictated about two thirds of a revised report, when the work was suspended and never resumed. It would be obviously unfair to offer the reader either the discarded newspaper report, or the incomplete revise, and so the speech has been wholly omitted, great and celebrated as it was. Except in one instance, the compiler has not encumbered the following pages with notes of any description. It will be found that each speech and essay will itself contain a sufficient explanation of the circumstances under which it was spoken or written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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