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A LEGAL BIOGRAPHY.

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NO. 2.

what they did to acquire that reputation, and of course, the true value of it, is left to conjecture, or, as in the case of the former, especially, to posthumous invention or embellishment.

It was the observation of the great Pinkney, that the lawyer's distinction was preferable to all others, since it was impossible to acquire in our profession, a false or fraudulent reputation. How true this aphorism is, the pages of this L.w M......e will abundantly illustrate.

In a

My Dear Sir-Having established, at great expense, and from motives purely patriotic and disinterested, a monthly periodical for the purpose of supplying a desideratum in The value, and, indeed, the fact of distincAmerican Literature, namely, the commemo- tion, consists in its uncommonness. ration and perpetuation of the names, charac-whole nation of giants, the Welsh Monster ters, and personal and professional traits and in Barnum's Museum would be undistinhistories of American lawyers and jurists, I guished. Therefore, we-excuse the editohave taken the liberty of soliciting your consent rial plural-strive to collect the histories only to be made the subject of one of the memoirs, of the most eminent of the profession in the which shall adorn the columns of this Jour- several States; the aggregate of whom reachnal. This suggestion is made from my know-es some two or three hundred names. You ledge, shared by the intelligence of the whole have, undoubtedly, seen some of the numcountry, of your distinguished standing and bers of our work, which will better illustrate merits in our noble profession; and it is seconded by the wishes and requests of many of the prominent gentlemen in public and private life, who have the honor of your acquaintance.

our plan, and the mode of its past, as well as the intended mode of its future execution.

It would be affectation, my dear sir, to deny that what mainly consoles us under a sense of the hazardous nature of such an enThe advantages of a work of this sort, in terprise to our personal fortunes-pardon the its more public and general bearing, are so pun, if you please-and amidst the anxieties patent that it would be useless for me to refer of so laborious an undertaking, is the expecto them. The effect of the publication upon tation, that, through our labors, the reputathe fame of the individual commemorated is, tion of distinguished men of the country, if not equally apparent, at least, equally de- constituting its moral treasure, may be precided. The fame of an American lawyer, served for the admiration and direction of like that of an actor, though sufficiently mark-mankind, not for a day, but for all time. And ed and cognizable within the region of his it has occurred to me, that such true merit as practice, and by the witnesses of his perfor-yours might find a motive for your enrolment mances, is, nevertheless, for the want of an among the known sages and profound intelorgan for its national dissemination, or of an lects of the land, not less in the natural deenduring memorial for its preservation, apt sire of a just perpetuation of renown, than to be ephemeral, or, at most, to survive among in the patriotism which desires the improvesucceeding generations, only in the form of ment of the race of lawyers who are to come unauthentic and vague traditions. What do after you, and the adding to the accredited we know of Henry or of Grundy as lawyers, standards of public taste and professional atexcept that it is reported of them that they tainment and genius.

were eloquent and successful advocates. But We know from experience, that the charVOL. XIX-9.