Excerpt from Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr., Esq.: At a Dinner Given to the Officers of the "Kearsarge," in Response to a Toast in Honor of the Judiciary While we honor the institution, let us not be nu mindful of the men who have made it what it is. Let us not forget the honored dead who have caused the jurisprudence of the United States, in its inter national relations, ' to be respected the world over. In the science of international law, there are no names more honored than those of Marshall, Story, Kent and Wheaton. They are authority wherever, in the world, there is authority in reason and right. In the exciting controversies of the last few years, to unwilling hearers, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, (better known, perhaps, as Historicus, of the London Times, ) has borne his testimony that the prize decisions of the American Courts in the last generation have commanded the respect of the world; and -it is no small thing to say that there is no decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in a prize cause, against which a settled opinion has been formed. And, recently, in an excited debate in the House of Commons, where our country and its cause had few friends, the solicitor-gen eral, Sir Roundell Palmer, the best authority in Parliament on that subject, told a reluctant au dience that the prize decisions made by the Ameri can Courts in the present war, had been beyond exception. 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.