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Katharine  F.  Richmond

and
Henry  C.  Fall


»  OS  TOW.
PHAHLBB  C.  LITTLE  AS" iQ  ..TAMES
MCCCCILV.
LIFE


HON.  JEREMIAH  SMITH,  LL.D.
MEMBER      OF      CONGRESS      DURING      WASHINGTON'S      ADMINISTRATION,

JUDGE     OF     THE     UNITED      STATES      CIRCUIT     COUET,

CHIEF    JUSTICE    OF    NEW    HAMPSHIRE,    ETC.
BY  JOHN  H.  MORISON


BOSTON :

CHARLES  C.   LITTLE   AND   JAMES  BROWN.
1845.
Entered  according  to  Act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1845,

By  JOHN  H.  MORISON,
in  the  Clerk's  Office  of  the  District  Court  of  the  District  of  Massachusetts.
BOSTON:

PKINTED  BY  FREEMAN  AND  BOLLES,
WASHINGTON  STREET.
PREFACE.
AFTER  Judge  Smith's  death,  in  the  autumn  of
1842,  his  papers  were  placed  at  my  disposal,  and
from  them,  chiefly,  this  memoir  has  been  prepared.
Scarcely  a  document  of  any  kind  has  been  here  in-
troduced that  was  ever  before  published ;  and  where
facts,  before  known,  are  stated,  I  have  usually  done
it  on  the  authority  of  the  original  evidence  to  be
found  among  Judge  Smith's  papers.
Many  of  the  letters  here  given  are  from  the  origi-
nal draughts  which  he  preserved,  and  will  sometimes
be  found  to  differ  verbally  from  the  copies  that  were
sent.  He  was  in  the  habit  of  transferring  to '  his
common-place  book  whatever  particularly  struck  him
in  his  reading,  accompanying  his  extracts  often  by
remarks  of  his  own.  It  is  possible  that,  in  two  or
three  instances,  I  may  have  copied  as  his,  what  he
had  only  transcribed  from  others.
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IV  PREFACE.
It  can  hardly  be  necessary  to  say  to  the  intelli-
gent reader,  that  I  am  not  to  be  held  responsible
for  Judge  Smith's  actions  or  opinions,  but  only  for
the  accuracy  of  my  statements  in  respect  to  them.
