voice. Marshall, Cushing, Chase, Washington, Johnson, Livingston,
Todd,--where are they? Where is that eloquent statesman and learned
lawyer who was my associate counsel in the management of that cause,
Robert Goodloe Harper? Where is that brilliant luminary, so long the
pride of Maryland and of the American bar, then my opposing counsel,
Luther Martin? Where is the excellent clerk of that day, whose name
has been inscribed on the shores of Africa as a monument of his
abhorrence of the African slave-trade, Elias B. Caldwell? Where is
the marshal--where are the criers of the court? Alas! where is one
of the very judges of the court, arbiter of life and death, before
whom I commenced this anxious argument, even now prematurely closed?
Where are they all? Gone--gone--all gone! Gone from the services
which in their day and generation they faithfully tendered to their
country. From the excellent characters which they sustained in life,
so far as I have had the means of knowing, I humbly hope, and fondly
trust, they have gone to receive the rewards of blessedness on high.

"In taking, then, my final leave of this bar, and of this honorable
court, I can only ejaculate a fervent petition to Heaven that every
member of it may go to his final account with as little of earthly
frailty to answer for as those illustrious dead; and that every one,
after the close of a long and virtuous career in this world, may be
received at the portals of the next with the approving sentence,
'Well done, good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord.'"

CHAPTER XII.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.--HIS DEATH.--
VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER SUCCEEDS.--REMARKS OF MR. ADAMS ON THE
OCCASION.--HIS SPEECH ON THE CASE OF ALEXANDER M'LEOD.--HIS VIEWS
CONCERNING COMMONPLACE BOOKS.--HIS LECTURE ON CHINA AND CHINESE
COMMERCE.--REMARKS ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY, AND HIS DUTY IN RELATION
TO IT.--HIS PRESENTATION OF A PETITION FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION,
AND THE VOTE TO CENSURE HIM FOR DOING IT.--HIS THIRD REPORT ON MR.
SMITHSON'S BEQUEST.--HIS SPEECH ON THE MISSION TO MEXICO.

On the 4th of March, 1841, William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, was
inaugurated President of the United States, and John Tyler, of Virginia,
Vice-President; each of whom had two hundred and thirty-four out of two
h