Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 60
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Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 61
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Letter from B.W. Leigh, Esq. to the General Assembly of Virginia.
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals, and in the General Court, of Virginia, Vol. 9: Jefferson-33 Grattan, 1730-1880 (Classic Reprint)
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Upon the petition of mrs. Wood's admit: is trator, this court allowed him an appeal from the decree.
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Benjamin Watkins Leigh was an American lawyer and statesman. He served as a United States Senator from Virginia from 1834 to 1836.
Background
Benjamin Watkins Leigh was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia. His father, Rev. William Leigh, after attending the College of William and Mary, studied theology in Edinburgh. Returning in 1772, he married Elizabeth Watkins, daughter of Benjamin Watkins and granddaughter of Archibald Cary, the two delegates from Chesterfield County to the Virginia Convention of 1776. The youthful minister was one of ten clergymen who protested against British taxation in 1774.
Education
He received careful private tutelage and attended the College of William and Mary.
Career
Leigh began in 1802 the practice of law in Petersburg, and gained a reputation in his first case by securing the acquittal of a youth who in defense of his mother had killed his step-father. His first case in the Supreme Court of Appeals, likewise a cause célèbre, concerned his own admission to practice there. Having declined to take the oath against dueling required of attorneys, on the theory that they were officers of the court, he was at first denied admission; but later won over the court by a powerful argument prefaced with the statement that "he should have no doubt or apprehension which would preponderate with that tribunal, the love of justice or the pride of consistency".
At the close of a brief service (1811 - 1813) in the House of Delegates, he removed to Richmond. There he rapidly advanced in his profession and was repeatedly honored with public commissions. He supervised the preparation of the Code of 1819. In 1822 he represented Virginia in a controversy with Kentucky, whose advocate was Henry Clay, concerning lands granted as rewards for Revolutionary services. His fame reached its height in the notable Virginia convention of 1829-1830, when he followed his forebears as the representative of the county of Chesterfield. In the conflict of interest between the eastern and western parts of the state, Leigh, as the representative of the wealthy, slave-holding, and conservative east, was a dominant figure; and while he was not the author of the compromise that settled the major problem, his trenchant service paved the way for its adoption.
He was again a member of the House of Delegates in 1830-1831. In 1833 Virginia sent him on a delicate mission to South Carolina, undertaken to secure her withdrawal of nullification--a service which had an ironic quality in its alignment of Leigh with President Jackson, whom he thoroughly disliked and distrusted. In 1834 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of W. C. Rives, who had refused to follow the instructions of the Virginia General Assembly to vote for the replacement of the government deposits in the Bank of the United States. Leigh vigorously advocated restoring the deposits, and President Jackson's protest against the resolution of censure drew from him an excoriating speech (April 18, 1834). The sentiment of Virginia, however, was veering to Jackson, and Leigh was reëlected in 1835 by a majority of only two.
On February 20, 1836, the General Assembly, reversing its former position, instructed the Virginia senators to vote for Benton's expunging resolution. John Tyler declined and resigned, but Leigh, in a letter of noble dignity, refused either to comply or resign, and instead, on April 4, 1836, made one of the greatest speeches of his career against the measure.
While a member of the General Assembly in 1812 he had introduced resolutions sustaining the right of a state legislature to instruct senators, but expressly excepting a situation where the instructions required a violation of the Constitution or an act of moral turpitude. In his letter to the General Assembly, he recalled these exceptions and demonstrated that they controlled his action. The act was one of supreme courage.
When on July 4, 1836, he resigned for personal reasons, he took pains to reaffirm his position. The General Assembly passed solemn resolutions of censure, which Leigh doubtless bore as unconcernedly as he had worn his honors. He never again held public office, save, from 1829 to 1841, that of reporter of the Supreme Court of Appeals, then served by a bar of notable ability. There he was long a leader, and the court's decisions constitute the principal record of his life work. According to the lawyer's traditions, he "worked hard, lived well, and died poor. " Contemporary testimony and his surviving writings and speeches reveal him as a master of the spoken and the written word. His family surroundings were distinctly intellectual. A brother, Judge William Leigh, friend and executor of John Randolph of Roanoke, was not his inferior in learning. While Leigh's services as codifier and reporter have somewhat prolonged his local reputation, even in Virginia he is to the rising generation but a name, and hardly a familiar one. An aristocrat in the best sense in a youthful and impatient democracy, of an intellectual reach far beyond most of those whose fame has outlived his own, he was forbidden, by the very clarity of his mental processes and the loftiness of his character, the compromises which the politician finds natural and the successful statesman inevitable. He chose what he believed the better way, and in maintaining his integrity, moral and intellectual, he counted as nothing the loss of present power or posthumous fame.
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Connections
Leigh was thrice married: first to a cousin, Mary Selden Watkins; second, to Susan Colston, niece of Chief Justice Marshall; and third, to Julia Wickham, daughter of the eminent lawyer, John Wickham. He left numerous children.