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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
sound, logical, and conclusive. There is no doubt of it; and the neatness and elegance with which it is written are delightful. Judge Story wrote, Feb. 6:— I am glad to know that Mr. Prescott and Chancellor Kent approve of your article on the Right of search. It confirms my previous opinion of its intrinsic soundness. I do not exactly know whether Mr. Webster and Mr. Legare concur in its doctrines, but I shall be surprised if they do not. He wrote as to the second article, Feb. 20— I go along with you throughout. This last article is written with a close logic and lawyer-like precision; or rather, I should say, with the comprehensive grasp of a publicist dealing with the general law of nations, and not with the municipal doctrines of a particular country. Letters approving his view came also from Rufus Choate and Theodore Sedgwick. The peculiar character of slave ownership as against common right, and existing only under positive municipal law, became a