Excerpt from John Archibald Campbell Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1853-1861 I desire to express especial obligation to Captain Frederick M. Colston, of Baltimore, son-in-law of Judge Campbell, without whose constant assistance and generous interest the work could not have been executed. My thanks are also due for valuable sug gestions to Mr. Carleton Hunt and Mr. William P. Dart, of the New Orleans Bar, and to Captam Samuel A. Ashe, of Raleigh, North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.