CONTENTS OF VOLUME I I. Brief and Argument in the New York Court of Appeals, January 24, 1860, in the case of The People of the State of New York against Jonathan Lemmon. II. Address to the jury in summing up for the Govern- ment, in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, October 29, 30, 1861, in the case of The United States against Thomas Harrison Baker and Others, the Officers and Crew of the schooner "Savannah," on the charge of Piracy. III. Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Government, February, 1863, in the case of Peter Miller et al., Claimants of the barque "Hiawatha" against The United States, and other cases. (The Prize Cases).. . . . IV. Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States, February, 1866, in the case of Churchill against the City of Utica. (Bank Tax Case)..... V. Argument in defence of President Andrew Johnson, April-May, 1868, before the Senate of the United PAGE VII. Argument before the International Tribunal at Geneva, Switzerland, on behalf of The United States, under the Treaty of Washington, August, 1872. (The Alabama Claims). . . VIII. Argument before the Mixed Commission on British and American claims under the Treaty of Washing- ton, August, 1873, for the claimants in the case of S. Isaac Campbell & Co., owners of the cargo of the INTRODUCTION It is related of John Bright that when consulted about his biography he would turn the subject aside by saying, “My life is in my speeches." That his life was in his speeches may be said with much truth of Mr. Evarts. His position before the public of his day was, to be sure, in no sense upon a parallel with that of the great tribune of the English people, and the traditional environment, the training and education of the two men were wholly dissimilar. But the chief reminders of Mr. Evarts to-day are his speeches. Through them can best be recalled the man, whether they were the arguments of the advocate, or political speeches, or whether they appear in the form of elaborate orations at important commemorations, or in the lighter vein of occasional addresses. At the very outset of his career Mr. Evarts leaped, at one bound, into prominence as an advocate in the profession in which his acknowledged supremacy formed, perhaps, the chief title to his fame. Just past twenty-four years old, the duty was by his senior associates assigned to him, as junior counsel for the defendant, of opening to the jury the case of the defense in the trial of the notorious forger, Monroe Edwards. The opportunities offered in this cause célèbre for a young man to win his spurs were unusual but manifest. That so important a part in the trial was given him by his elder brethren at the bar, chief among whom was Senator Crittenden of Kentucky, speaks well for the way in which he had acquitted himself in the earlier preparation and conduct of the case, a great part of which had fallen upon his shoulders. Expecting to occupy but a few minutes in his address to the jury, he spoke for an hour and a half, eliciting at the close a ripple of applause from the crowded audience that public interest in the cause had |