convinced that, as a constitutional lawyer, he had no equal on the bench. The soundness of that opinion was attested by the subsequent overthrow of the judgment of the court by the eleventh amendment. Chief Justice Jay's opinion in this case was by far the most elaborate ever delivered by him while on the bench. That of Judge Wilson is a striking display of the wide range of his erudition. The momentous nature of the question under consideration was stated by him in the following words: "This is a case of uncommon magnitude. One of the parties to it is a State, certainly respectable, claiming to be sovereign. The question to be determined is, whether this State, so respectable and whose claim soars so high, is amenable to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States. This question, important in itself, may depend on others more important still, and may, perhaps, be ultimately resolved into one no less. radical than this, 'Do the people of the United States form a nation?'"' Profoundly impressed with a sense of the consequences which he foresaw would flow from the doctrine of his associates on the bench, Judge Iredell, in closing his dissenting opinion, said: "I pray to God that, if this doctrine as to the law be established by the judgment of this court, all the good predicted from it may take place, and none of the evils with which, I have the concern to say, it appears to me to be pregnant." Nothing but the amendment com and constitutional rightfulness of our dead and buried cause with argument unanswerable and with a majestic strength that will command for all time to come the admiring attention of mankind. Greg's History of the United States was first published in England six years ago. The fact that it has not till now been brought to the knowledge and placed within reach of the American people is explained by the statement that a wealthy New Englander bought up all the copies he could get that found their way to this country and withdrew them from circulation, and no Northern house would republish or keep it. But "truth crushed to earth will rise again,” and Greg's history, destined to immortality, was rescued from the oblivion in which unfriendly and malignant hands would bury it. Notwithstanding the attempted suppression, Prof. Dabney, professor of history in the University of Virginia, after long and persistent effort, finally succeeded in getting hold of a few copies, and at his instance a Southern house has published an American edition, to which Gen. Wade Hampton has written an introduction. GEN. HAMPTON SAYS: "The American publishers of this remarkable work have conferred a benefit upon the reading public of this country by placing it within the reach of all thoughtful students of American history who desire to learn the truth unobscured by sectionalism or par * tisanship. book is of inestimable value, for it contains not only a vindication of the South, but it bears noble testimony to the devotion, the patriotism and the heroism of its citizens. * It is fortunate for us that a disinterested foreign writer of established reputation has come to our rescue, vindicating alike our cause and our conduct, as this work of Greg has done, fully and conclusively. Every true man in the South who followed the starry cross in its brief but glorious career; every one who feels a pride in the achievements of our Southland in the past, or who wishes to see our people vindicated, should read Greg's History of the United States." To the Southern people the Such is the book that, in the fulness of time, has come to us from the land of Shakespeare and Milton -the land of Havelock and Nelson, of Hampden, Pym and Sidney. Such is the book of which Prof. Dabney, in a letter now before me, says: "Let us hope that many thousands of copies may soon be distributed through our well-beloved and much-maligned Southland." Breathes there a son or a daughter of that Southland with soul so dead as not to share this hope? I need not ask if the words of that true and loyal Virginian and Southerner do not strike a responsive chord in the heart of every survivor of those fast |