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Rh from the judgment of the court upon the questions of negro suffrage 1 and the soldier's right to vote;2 and in these he sought to accommodate the State Constitution to the dictates of natural justice. His place in the court was taken by his former colleague Graves.

Manning was born at Plainfield, N. J.,

prosecuting attorney from 1841 to 1846, and a member of the State Senate at the sessions of 1850 and 1851; but his usefulness at this period was in the line of politics, for he was an active Free-soiler, took a leading part in the national convention of that party at Buffalo in 1848, was its candidate for governor in 1852, and was "the leader and May 19, 1804. He studied law in New York prime mover 1 in the political combination of City, and on coming



to Michigan in 1832

the Whig and Free-soil parties in 1854

he settled at Pontiac. from which sprang He was on the judici the Republican party." ary committee in the When the Republican Constitutional Con party came into being, vention of 1835; in he was a delegate to its first national conven 1837 he was State tion, which was held at Senator; from 1838 to 1840 he was Secre Philadelphia in 1856. tary of State, and he For the purposes of was chosen Chancellor one of these early cam in 1842, to succeed paigns, he bought the Elon Farnsworth, "Monroe Commer whose previous dis cial," and edited it for a few weeks. When charge of the duties he had been for seven of that office won him teen years a judge, he the compliments of was made United Kent.3 Manning, States Senatorin 1875, however, was not cut in place of Zachariah out for a chancellor; Chandler, who had he was, as Judge been his Whig com Cooley says, " a good petitor for the gov man and an able law

ernorship in 1852. yer, but altogether too He became at once a strict and technical in his practice for an equity judge; and he conspicuous figure in the Senate; but in made his court so unpopular that it was 1879 he was sent as minister to Peru, and abolished by law."4 He followed Douglass was there in the midst of her bloody but in as reporter, and published one volume. He effective struggle with Chili. Indeed, with other members of the Diplomatic Corps, he died August 31, 1864. Isaac Peckham Christiancy was born at was under the Chilian fire for two hours at Johnstown, N. Y., March 12, 1812, and Miraflores, just before the capture of Lima; came to Monroe, Mich., in 1836. He was and his despatches to Secretary Evarts con tain a graphic and thrilling description of 1 People v. Dean, 14 Mich 406. the disorders that attended that event. Since 2 Twitchell v. Blodgett, 13 Mich. 186. his return he has lived quietly at Lansing, 3 4 Kent's Commentaries. 163. 4 Cooley's Lenawee Bar; 7 Pioneer Collections. 529 1 Bingham's Michigan Biographies.