Speech Of Hon William H Hatch Of Missouri In The House Of Representatives Thursday March 24 1892

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Download or read book Proceedings and Speeches on the Announcement of the Death of Hon. William M. Cooke of Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings and Speeches on the Announcement of the Death of Hon. William M. Cooke of Missouri: In the House of Representatives of the Confederate States, on the 18th of April, 1863 Wm M. Cooke, was born in Portsmouth, Va., on the 11th day of December, 1823, and was the sixth son of Mordicai Cooke, a gentleman well known in Virginia, and for many years connected with the legislation of that State. In 1843, after an attendance of three years Judge Cooke graduated at the University of Virginia, and removed to the city of St. Louis, which was then just beginning to throb with the energy of that great region, tributary with its rich and varied products to this empress of the West. Soon after taking a residence in St. Louis, he intermarried with the eldest daughter of Henry Von Phul, of that city, and in the year succeeding his marriage removed to Hannibal, Missouri, for the purpose of practising his profession. He was soon afterwards made judge of the court of common pleas, and discharged the duties of that position with ability and zeal. Reasons connected with the comfort and happiness of his family, induced Judge Cooke, in the year 46 to return to St. Louis, and he then applied himself to the practice of the law in that city. The records of the highest courts in Missouri and the testimony of those who practiced with him, can attest the extent of his legal knowledge and his high position at the bar. In the year preceding this return to St. Louis, the slavery question became the subject of intense excitement throughout the State of Missouri. The Legislature of that State at its session of '45, passed the Jackson resolutions, the author of which, lately died an exile and wanderer upon the soil of a sister State, and the principles announced in this action of the Legislature, the same principles for which the South is now contending, were assailed by Thomas H. Benton with a bitterness and ability rarely equalled in the annals of political warfare. Old party lines were obliterated by this new and exciting conflict between the Benton and anti-Benton parties. The one represented the Northern, the other the Southern elements, which are now in civil war contending for supremacy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.