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 Glances at our Colonial Bar. ability as a lawyer and a judge of discrimi nating learning. He died when fifty-five years old. Unfortunately for his military fame, he was twice, as general, caught nap ping : first, at the Long Island battle, where he allowed Sir Henry Clinton to get with bayonets in the rear of the American column, while Hessians took it in the front

with powder and ball; and, again, at Brandywine, when he allowed Cornwallis to cross that little river unob served and fall upon the colonists' rear. But Sullivan's biog rapher narrates that "no one ever caught ' ' mm him napping at the bar or on the bench; and that while dor■fcv mientes of the law maxim might apply to his military ca reer, vigilantes be longed to his legal experience." The catalogue of Yale College in cludes the name of colonial Abraham Baldwin, both as its PATRICK A.B. and tutor. Born in Connecti cut, during the Indian war in which Col. George Washington was already preemi nent, he left the State, at the age of twenty-five, to emigrate to Savannah, where in due time he was admitted to its bar and became known as the most prominent lawyer in Georgia. The State sent him to Wash ington to assist in framing the Federal con stitution, and subsequently rewarded his labors with a Federal senatorship, in fulfill ing the duties of which he died. Visitors to the Congressional burying-ground often

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note his tombstone, commemorating him as the founder of the University of Georgia. The modest name of " A. Baldwin " will be found at times in Cranch's reports, showing that the pursuit of politics did not interfere with that coincident practice of a noble profession which commemorated a Wirt, a Webster, a Woodbury, a Choate, a Seward, and a Conkling. A jolly and# ver satile Irish emigre was he who became known during Revo lutionary times, in Charleston, to its bar and bench, under the odd but classic name of /Edanus Burke. A young lawyer of the Galway district, he came to this country for the expressed pur pose of fighting King George. Ad mitted at once to the South Carolina bar, his legal talents were so conspicuous that, although a military participant for a time in the revolutionary events HENRY. of the place, the provincial legisla ture thought he was best fitted for civic influence, and made him judge of the supreme court before he was thirty years old. But Charleston for a time fell pros trate before British power; and Judge Burke, ceasing to sing law, imitated /Eneas and sang arms, by taking a commission as colonel. He is mentioned laudably in military despatches; but at peace he re sumed judicial office. He opposed the Federal constitution, because, as an Irish man, he feared consolidated power; never-

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