"If Law be a science, and really deserve so sublime a name, it must be founded on principle,
and claim an exalted rank in the empire of reason.” — SIR WILLIAM JONES.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1868.

LIBRARY OF THE
LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

( 28.973
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

A MAN, GENEROUS, NOBLE, AND OF SPOTLESS REPUTATION;

This Work

IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

St. Louis, Mo., August, 1868.