v LIFE

OF

JAMES SULLIVAN:

WITI

Selections from his Writings.

BY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

THOMAS C. AMORY, Jr., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE

Early preparation — Character as a lawyer — Character as an advocate -

Case of Freeman - Case of Gordon vs. Gardner - Case of Mary Ford - Case

of Smith vs. Dalton – Case of Jason Fairbanks — Anecdotes - Argument in

case of Wheeler, ...

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CHAPTER II.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

1796-1801.

Candidate for governor — Municipal reform — Pejebscot claim — Case of

Abijah Adams — French war — Cockades — Canvass for presidency, . . 53

CHAPTER III.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

1801-1804.

Early rising - New administration - Letters to William Eustis — Federal

judiciary-Plain Truth — Death of Samuel Adams - South Boston — Mill

Pond – Municipal reform, .

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CHAPTER IV.

POLITICAL SENTIMENTS.

Party spirit — Party creeds — Federalists — Republicans - Political opinions,

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CHAPTER V.

CANVASS.

1804–1807.

Presidential election - Constitutional society - Western lands — Case of Con-

ner - Attorney-general – Case of Selfridge,

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CHAPTER VI.

ADMINISTRATION.

Levi Lincoln — State governments — Address — Courts of sessions — County-

attorneys — Republican measures— Militia law – University, . . . . 192

CHAPTER VII.

ADMINISTRATION.

International law – Decrees and orders — Case of the Chesapeake — Impress-

ment — Right of search — Proclamations — Canvass for president, . . 216

CHAPTER VIII.

ADMINISTRATION.

Embargo — Speech — Judiciary – Betterment law — Troubles in Maine —

Pickering correspondence - Proclamation, . .

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CHAPTER IX.

ADMINISTRATION.

British influence — Embargo — Speech — Electoral colleges — Non-intercourse

– Last illness — Death, . .

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OBITUARY, BY JOHN Q. ADAMS,

FUNERAL SERMON,

EPITAPH, .

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LEGISLATIVE TRIBUTE, .

SKETCH, BY SAMUEL L. KNAPP,

MEMOIR, BY JAMES WINTHROP,

CORRESPONDENCE,

LETTER TO Council, 7 November, 1775, . . .

“ SAMUEL FREEMAN, 21 January, 1776,

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LETTER TO BENJAMIN LINCOLN, 31 January, 1776,

7 February, 1776,

“ PEREZ MORTOX, 8 February, 1776,

" SAMUEL FREEMAN, 12 February, 1776,

“ JAMES WARREN, 4 June, 1776,

“ SAMUEL FREEMAN, 19 June, 1776,

" JOHN SULLIVAN, 30 August, 1779, .

“ ELBRIDGE GERRY, 25 December, 1779,

“ BENJAMIN LINCOLN, 4 August, 1781,

“ 26 September, 1781,

« 16 January, 1782,

" 4 November, 1782,

18 November, 1782,

“ HENRY Knox, 17 December, 1783,

“ Rurus KING, 25 October, 1785, .

“ 25 February, 1787,

“ RICHARD HENRY LEE, 11 April, 1789,

“ ELBRIDGE GERRY, 13 August, 1789, .

30 August, 1789,

“ SIR WILLIAM JONES, 7 February, 1795,

“ TIMOTHY PICKERING, 5 November, 1798,

“ Mrs. CUTLER, 30 March, 1800,

“ JAMES MADISON, 20 May, 1802,

“ JOSEPH S. BUCKMINSTER, 2 April, 1806,

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