Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26

speak with patience. had been piratsd body and soul,
and, with the most unblushng eontery reproduced
"Tayor's Evidence"
Judge KENT then gave-a The State Of Rhode hMnd In
revolutions and in riots always true 10 law and order"
To which Gen. CARPEsTER of Providence Rhode Island
of the Committee Dissertations replied He said he
could display wit he had any and by accident
he should say witty thing, 1t would sy the maxim that
the days OF miracles past He spoke with high
daion of the Law School and its results He said that its
beneficial influences had adted every section Of the
ty and had sensby eevsed the standard of professional
character The institution, he said, projected aud
tured by eminent and muni6cent citizens of
who located it within the precincts Of this venerable unve-
sly He denied however, that il belonged exclusively
Massachusetts, in any other Its patriotic founders
gave 10 their whole country, and the whole country s ex
perencing its benefits He knew many Of its graduates but
be did not know among them who did deem patriot.
ism to rank amongst the highest virtues and obedience 10 the
laws Of his country be of his most sacred duties and
be reoced in the casgaton which the had given
the fanatics who were endangeng the safety Of the Union
He spoke of the prize essays which had been examined by
the committee He said his honorable colleagues would bear
witness that he did speak exavagany when he said that
several Of them Of the highest order Of legal
ions and evnced degree Of research and style Of legal
literature which would have been credtabe any lawyer Of
twenty years practice.
BY the especial request of his colleagues he offered
tment, in which he said he heartily concurred with
them !:
s.TAe Hon. JoEn PARKER, Royal Professor of Lau at
Cambridge University, and his honorable associates in the
Lao Institution May their lives their health and their use
nne be long continued to the institution and to the
try"
Judge kent then gave-7Ae State of Louisiasa /. has
common law, but most uncommony able Chief Justice
TO administer the law 1t has"
To which Chief Justice EUsrIs of New Orleans, re-
piled:
Mr.. President return you my thanks for the high COM
pmen conveyed by the which has just emanated from
the chair which attribute the kindness and courtesy
the gentlemen of this association. .ssr@.
From what has fallen from the gentlemen who have pre-
ceded find that the Law School of this university is the
topic Of the hour In Government like it is almost
impossible to overstate the advantages resulting from
sGon which takes the student from the dudgery of an
Office and transfers him to school of SCIENCE surrounded by
associations elevated and intellectual and supported the
influences Of good letters Not that to supersede the
labos and discipline, without such n the profession
is hopeless but gives just and proper direction bis
erop and enables him to pursue noble science what
he might be compelled to consider unineresng and
rksome trade. Institutions of this kind which the science
OF law taught and the principles Of general jurisprudence
are e1pounded of comparatively origin in the uni
versity There why their alutary influence
der free Government should be confined profession
What s taught here increases the of usefulness ia
every profession, and dmnishes It in And in cou-
try where every citizen may be called upon aid in the max
ing of laws, 1t has always appeared that in all the
modern systems of education the knowledge Of the law
not duly appreciated and had assigned its proper place.
The distinguished juist (M Justice Edmonds Of New
York) who has just taken bis seat has feengy complained
Of the additional peplexng labor thrown upon the bench in
the Interpretation of code Of practice which adopted
in New York without adequate preparation good popular
law school twenty years ago might have saved him and his
brethren this trouble. Though might not Of itself enabled
Its pupils to make codehe highest and difficult task
to which human intelligence be taxed-t would have
taught them the dangers Of nconsderae legislation and that
change in laws is not necessarily improvement The
learned gentleman expressed his fears Ioia yt was
inscribed the column of the Jurisprudence Of New York
This is the only subject upon which take the gen.
temans word in the presence Mr. President, Of the
dence which this festival and the gentlemans
has furnished that his apprehensions ground
less The days Of her Kents and Spences are not yet
passed.
confess rather sanguine of the future success and
usefulness Of this institution do confne it's influence
continent indulge hope that II may be ex-
tended beyond the Atlantic. If we may judge from the dis
cussons elaborate dscourses Of who undertake
to establish popular institutions in old Eope are
PEELED to the opinion that acquaintance with poy and
Jurisprudence, and the principles which free
alone be mantaRed, would materially aid them in the
accomplishment Of their work.
Allow me, Mr. President, before take my seat, to ask
little favor the civil law within the circle of the in
structon at the school, but far legislation concerned
confined to single State of this Union. Wherever Ia is
taught science the civil law will find it's place. Iis vain
to attempt to put any weorganzed State beyond its high
and conservative In England early PERIOD
ohibed by edict Of the sovereign The University
Of Paris time forbidden give lectures degrees
in the Roman law and in Spnn the quotation Of it in judi
c proceedings prohibited under the penalty Of DEATH
At present it msy be considered the law of Span
and 10 referred in France the highest written
and in England and in the United States and on
proper Subjects has its proper influence The great obstacle
cultivation branch Of elementary instruction is its
pugnsncy the principles of liberty. As it has down
bears the marks Of its imperial anson and the poll.
tica portion Of il is of that character But for centuries
after the establishment Of the imperial power the juss
Rome maintained with courage the great principle Of the old
republic Of equal rights and of the sovereignty Of the people,
Among the other realized benefits of the school, it has
produced this association, and has called forth the noble
eectua effort which have witnessed this day. The great
orator has earnestly enforced the high morality Of patriot
ism. II was the religion ofhe Roman Republic and the vital
principle of the Commonwealth conclude by submitting
sentiment:
atrios The fe-blood of republics which must ne
h with its decline May it be incuca,ed at the 6resde
the altar, and the FORUM"
of this country the Law School, The Boston bar
exhibits rich rpened fruits BY them we may Judge
Of the and declare it good"
CHARLES g. LoRIse replied. He began with expressing
his regret that there other representative from the
Lch6eld Law School to respond 10 the complimentary but
just notice Of that institution.
do remember said he, to have been forc
bly, reminded of my younger days than when looking
upon young friends in the midst Of whom stand. Il
recalls the time when too student among numerous
fellow sudens 1t will probably be them end to
others here that thirty eight years sgo which many
here remote antiquity there existed extensive
school in the State Of Connecticut, which sixty
students from all Of the country assembled every
State then in the Union being there represented Joined
in 1919, when it's zenith, and the only prominent es
| tabsbment Of the kind in the land.
The recoec ion 10 fresh Of the events of Yesterday
passing aong the broad shaded streets OF one of the
beautiful Of villages OF New England with opr