agely attacked by Sumner, Wilson, Hale, Wade, and others. Judge Trumbull warmly defended the character of the late Chief Justice, declaring that he “had added reputation to the judiciary of the United States throughout the world, and that he was not to be hooted down by exclamations about an emancipated country. Suppose he did make a wrong decision. No man is infallible. He was a great, learned, able judge."

Reverdy Johnson also championed Taney's cause, pronouncing an eloquent eulogium upon the late Chief Justice.-(For retort to Sumner, see "Reverdy Johnson.")

JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, VIRGINIA.

(1823-- -.)

Professor of Constitutional and International Law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Born in Winchester, Virginia, December 24, 1823. Is the son of Judge Henry St. George Tucker, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and Law Professor of the State University; and a grandson of St. George Tucker, of "Tucker's Blackstone." His grandmother was the widow of John Randolph, and mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. He graduated, greatly distinguished in higher mathematics, from the University of Virginia at twenty-one. Was admitted to the Richmond bar at twenty-two; formed a partnership in Winchester with Robert Y. Conrad; was elected Attorney General of Virginia at thirtyfour, remaining such till displaced by the result of the war; formed a partnership, 1866, with Burr P. Noland in Loudan county, the firm transacting an immense business growing out of constitutional and international war questions; refused the counselship of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company, and ac

cepted, 1870, a professorship of law in Washington and Lee University, where he still remains. In 1874 he was elected to Congress, being six times successively re-elected, holding for four years the chairmanship of the judiciary committee, and a short time the chairmanship of the ways and means committee, and voluntarily retired in 1887.

He is an orator of great power, possessing a fascinating eye, a charming voice, and a winning manner. As a lawyer he is munificently equipped, of an eminently analytic mind, well stored with the erudition of the law, which he imparts with singular felicity. He was associated with Charles O'Conor, of New York, William B. Reed of Philadelphia, and Robert Ould, of Richmond, as counsel for Jefferson Davis, indicted for treason; made with David Dudley Field an elaborate argument in the Florida case before the Electoral Commission; is renowned for his efforts in the Virginia debt cases; and was conspicuous in the Anarchist cases. He is a LL.D. of Yale and an expresident of the American Bar Association,

When Columbus Discovered America.

"Luther was ten years old when Columbus landed on American soil. Copernicus was dreaming of new heavens when Columbus found a new world. In the century which succeeded, Galileo discovered new forces in the universe. The philosophy of Aristotle was about to yield to the novum organum. Hugo Grotius was preparing to base inter-gential law on the jus gentium and the law of God. The compass had been used, printing was invented, the telescope unveiled the heavens Copernicus had proclaimed, gunpowder had changed the modes of warfare; human imagination was on tiptoe, expectant of any thing reason might establish. The night of the middle ages was far spent. The day of modern history was at dawn."-From President Tucker's address at the sixteenth annual meeting American Bar Association at Milwaukee, Wis., August 30, 1893.

The Period of Chief Waite's Chief Justiceship.

For Mr. Tucker's remarks at death of Chief Justice Waite, see article "Waite."

David Dudley Field's Munificent Gift.

A year or two before his death Mr. Field presented to Washington and Lee University, through Mr. Tucker, his magnificent and valuable law library.

DANIEL WOLSEY VOORHEES, INDIANA.

(1827-)

"The Tall Sycamore of the Wabash." Born in Butler county, Ohio, of Dutch ancestry, September 26, 1827. His parents were farmers who moved to Indiana when Daniel was two years old. At eighteen he entered Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University, whence he graduated at twenty-two, displaying fine mental ability and great oratorical powers. Studied law at Crawfordsville, was admitted in 1851, and commenced practice at Covington. In less than eight years he had acquired a national reputation as one of the most effective jury lawyers in the country, especially in criminal cases. In 1852, he formed a partnership with United States Senator Hannegan, of Indiana, who was led to take this step from listening to a Fourth-of-July oration delivered by young Voorhees. In 1857 he moved to Terre Haute, his present home. In 1858 he was appointed United States District Attorney for Indiana, and in 1861 elected to Congress, where he served five years, being appointed to the Senate in 1877, to fill the unexpired