Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-10-01

EQUAL advantage with older lawyers, and Oy dill
gent application they may successfully compete
with them.
II has been the design Of the Library Committee
10 obtain all Of the English and American RcpoFts;
but this is q result which time only can bring
about, &c very many volumes are out of print, and
they have TO be picked up in law Offices i, differ
snt parts Of the United States and England. This
search has brought to light and placed on
The shelves many old volumes, curious and rare,
many Of them containing autographs of distin-
guished Lawyers, Judges and Statesmen Of the past
sndlpresentage. From the Year books down" is a
phrase which every lawyer has read and re-read
until his ideas Of tho Year books are as confused
as il he had been translating hyerogly phics on
Ancient ruins. But here we have the identical
books-six large folio volumes in Norman French,
containing the laws of the Edwards. These books
we're once the property Of the lated oshuaA Spencer
Sf Utica, New York. Then there are the Estate
Trials", containing an account Of the trial of
Mary Queen of Scots, of Charles |, of the Rsgicides.
aud oil the noted English Williams, pirates and
shelves. Here kings and pirates are brought to-
gcther Charles l, and Captain Kidd the unfor-
tunate Queen Of Scots, aud the murderer of Over
bury; the great Sir Walter Raleigh, and Guy
Favkes. Then there is an old copy of Davies
Reports, two hundred and t~hirty-one years old,
while MY Lord Coke with his iron face figures ia
4 dozen W FUMES, looking as fierce and indicative
rs when he called Rlleigh "a spider of heir 4;
and then his great rival, the profound Bacon, for
whom Coke entertained no great love, is prominent
In these old books. 1t may be recommended By
readers Of English history that Coke and Bacon
were rivals, and both ambitious for the highest
Judicial Office in the kingdom. Bacon at last sue
~'eeedihg, his triumph was thought complete but
Coke was satisfied after he had lived to indict
Bacon for CORFU ption. There are Saville & Noyes'
Reports which 60 back almost to "the time when
the memory of man runnoth not to the contrary
and al of these have a coat of rms on the inside
of tho cover.
e Here you may find relics in which American
feel more interested, viz. an old edition of Coke's
REPORTS, once the property OF Samuel Adams, and
containing his signature;two or three volumes from
the library of the late Joseph Story, with his
autograph; other volumes contain the names Of
Theodore Sedgwick, the old Judge Of Massachu.
setts; Theopholus Parsons, Chief Justice; Judge
Bib of Kentucky recently deceased, and many
other eminent JuIists. Here is, also, On old vol.
ume of the Connecticut "Blue Laws" whose 6rst
owner was Captain Hotchkiss, who fought under
Wolfe at Quebec, and died in 1907, aged ninety
one years. Every one has heard of the "Blue
Laws. In this volume may be found laws against
lying, with its penalties-tho stocks and fines and
stripes; laws regulating the orderly observance Of
marriage. whose transgression was followed with
stocks, stripes and tolies QUOTES, and the brand of
Lt,n lofka, TnIooI H. ,u-- r IL
was hard in those days. Some of those statutes
date back as far as 1907. While the library con-
tains such evidences of the rigidness of the Puri.
fans, l must not fail to mention that the bred
Scott decision also honors ~ its shelves fit book
TO be placed by the side Of the Stale Trials.
The Judges Of our courts have taken a great in
terest in the welfare of the Institute, and 1 take
pleasure in mentioning in this connection the name
Of the Hon. JJhn NJ. Wilson. one of its officers,
Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago,
who has donated a large portion Of his private IL
brary to the Institute while he has not been spar
ing Of his money. Judge Wilson is one of our
'hblest Jurists, and one Of q galaxy of great men
who come from the "classic shades" of Bo,oGoin
College, and it may be interesting to know who
his College contemporaries were. There were in
College together, Ex-Prcsident PIERCE; Senator
HALE, Governor BELL of New Hampshire, Hon.
JOHN NJ. WILSON, Chief Justice of Superior Court,
Chicago, Professor STOWE of Andover, Prentice,
the great Mississippiap orator, Chief Justice Ar
PLEToN of Maine, Senator BELL, CIJLEY, who was
killed in q duel by Graves, Professor SMYrHE, pro-
fessor of mathematics, of New England, the poet
.LoNGFELLow, and Senator FEssENDEN of Maine.
There we're but one hundred students in ALL
$50 tnany eminent and superior men from SO small
h humber of students rarely if ever were found
before.
AT a future time | will endeavor to give you an
fden Of some Of our other Institutions the Young
Mems Association, the Historical Society, the Old
Settlers Society, and so on.
Yours, %x*