THE TREATY-MAKING POWER OF THE UNITED STATES BY CHARLES HENRY BUTLER OF THE NEW YORK BAR VOL. I. PART I. THE UNITED STATES IS A NATION. PART II. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE TREATY-MAKING POWER OF THE THE BANKS LAW PUBLISHING CO. 21 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK These volumes are dedicated with affection and respect to the memory of my grandfather BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER whom the Historian Bancroft described 66 as ever the upright statesman." He was born at Kinderhook Landing (Stuyvesant) New York, December 14, 1795, and died at Paris, France, November 8, 1858. He was appointed in 1824 a Commissioner to Revise the Statute Laws of the State of New York. He was Attorney-General of the United States from 1833 to 1838 during the administrations of ANDREW JACKSON and MARTIN VAN BUREN, and for a part of that period he was also Secretary of War. On more than one occasion, while he was AttorneyGeneral, he sustained THE TREATY-MAKING POWER OF THE UNITED STATES before the SUPREME COURT while JOHN MARSHALL was the CHIEF JUSTICE and JOSEPH STORY an ASSOCIATE JUSTICE of that august tribunal. "There were giants in the earth in those days." |