The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
STATE TRIALS.
Edited by Charles Edward Lloyd.-Pub-
lished by Callaghan & Co, III Monroe
Street, Chicago, Ill.
OF Kinston, n.

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Street, Chicago, Ill.
This is one of the most Interesting
books on the market this spring. The
story of its inception is this "A South
err woman, who had written for years
for the magazines and newspapers, was
III iced in charge of the exhibit of the
I;tgartFnent of Justice at the Omaha
Exposition. Among other things en-
trusted to her care was bookcase full
of valuable old books. the Pandects
Of JuStinian, Colonial Laws. and copies
of the State Trials in Great Britain
from the reign OF Richard the II. to
that of George the III. She not only
read them herself, but she bought Il
table and chairs, placed them i'll the
beautiful niche over which she pre-
sided and permitted her more cultured
visitors to read them. This table filled
with books became Il favorite resort for
judges, lawyers and scholars. The
popularity Of the books, especially the
State Trials Of Francis Hargrave and
T. b. Howell, Esq, convinced her that
if the best of these books could be put
in handy volumes at cheap price there
would he demand for them. At the
suggestion of several prominent lawyers
she wrote to Messrs. Callaghan Il Co.
and they approved the plan. The first
volume is Just issued by that firm. 1t
contains the Trials of Mary, Queen of
Scots: Sir Walter Raleigh and Cap
tain Kid the Pirate. These are con
densed but everything of especial in
terest is given in full There is no bet
on
Oh ones mind than by reading these
Trials. No lawyer can fail to find Il
romantic interest in every page of the
book and he will be amazed at the
language and the ruling of some of
the lawyers and judges of the dates
given. For instance, Sir Edward Coke,
who was Attorney General when Sir
Walter Raleigh was tried for high trea-
son, uses language towards the distln-
guished prisoner which would not be
tolerated in the courts of to-day. Eff
teen years later, when Coke was Lord
Chief Justice, he, manages to bring Sir
Walter Raleigh to execution on II pre-
text evidently prepared for the occasion
at the command of King James. The
intense jealousy of Spain at the en-
croachments of the Anglo Saxon on
the Western Hemisphere is everywhere
conspicuous in the trial of Sir Walter
Raleigh. 1T is made plain that Spain
was the Indirect factor in the death of
Raleigh. In the light Of passing events
the retribution of history is startling.
Sir Walter Raleigh's charter from
Queen Elizabeth for the discovery of
Virginia extended far to the northward
of the present boundary of that State.
Its western limit was the Pacific ocean.
The descendants of the colony he
founded number many who are about
to sweep the power of CASTLE and
Arragon not only from the Western
Hemisphere. but from the Pacific
Ocean as well. The royal line of Stuart
is extinct The name of Raleigh is
kept alive i'll several States of the
Union. The cruiser haleigh was one
of Dewey's squadron at the battle of
Manila The wisdom of Raleigh was
recently endorsed by the Congress of
the United States for he first advised
the holding of the Isthmus of Panama
as the strategic point to control the
commerce of the two oceans that wash
the shores of this hemisphere. Raleigh
is the capital city of the State of the
two distinguished gentlemen to whom
the book is dedicated-viz., Hon. Jeter
c. Pritchard, senior Senator from North
Carolina. and Hon. James T.. Boyd,
First Assistant Attorney General of the
United States.
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