(Excerpt from A Study of Quintus of Smyrna
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Excerpt from A Study of Quintus of Smyrna
I koechly, De Zacunis in Quinta Smyrnaeo quaestio (dissertation, discovers very many lacunae in Quintus. He thinks that Quintus is always explicit, and that, although gaps in the Aldine edition have been supplied from the manuscripts, no line of it has been rejected. In M also he finds lacuna, and in some cases what he considers probable reasons for them. When Quintus is not explicit there is reason to suspect a lacuna.
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The Constitution of the United States defined and carefully annotated
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A Digest Of The Laws Of Texas: Containing The Laws In Force, And The Repealed Laws On Which Rights Rest, From 1754 To 1875, Carefully Annotated, Volume 2
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George Washington Paschal was an American jurist, author, and journalist.
Background
George Washington Paschal was born on November 23, 1812 in Skull Shoals, Greene County, Georgia, United States. He was the son of George Paschal and Agnes Brewer. His father was of French Huguenot descent. Though unsuccessful in business, he had an uncommonly good classical education. Agnes Paschal, a woman of the pioneer type, was a descendant of one of the earliest English families settling in North Carolina. She had a wide reputation in northern Georgia as a sick nurse and practical physician and lived to the age of ninety-four.
Education
George Washington Paschal was educated at home and in the state academy at Athens, where he earned his way by teaching in the preparatory course and by keeping the books of his landlord.
Career
George Washington Paschal showed an early taste for the law and in 1832 passed an examination for admission to the bar before the superior court of Walker County. About this time a gold rush had begun in Lumpkin County, which together with the land lottery speculation arising from the seizure of the Cherokee lands, seemed to offer a bonanza to the young and briefless barrister. And so to Lumpkin he went to hang out his shingle. After the treaty of 1835 which was repudiated by the great bulk of the Cherokees, Paschal, who had joined a volunteer company of militia, was ordered to New Echota to serve as aide-de-camp under Gen. John E. Wool in the forcible removal of the Cherokees to Indian Territory. It was on this expedition that he married Sarah, a full-blooded Cherokee, the daughter of Maj. John Ridge, one of the chiefs of the nation.
In 1837 Paschal emigrated to Arkansas and opened a law office, being later joined by his brother. His legal talents soon placed him at the top of his profession and at the age of thirty he was elected by the legislature a justice of the supreme court of Arkansas, for the term of eight years. It was the only office he ever held. A number of his opinions appear in 5 Arkansas Reports which are noteworthy for their conciseness, clarity, and learning. Within less than a year on the bench he resigned and returned to the bar of Van Buren, Benton County, just in time to take charge at a critical moment of the Cherokee claims against the United States. Through the efforts of Paschal and his associate counsel the treaty of amnesty of 1846 was adopted.
In 1848 George Washington Paschal took up his residence in Galveston, Texas, and shortly thereafter moved to Austin where he soon attained first rank at the Texas bar. He was an intense partisan at all times, believing with the faith of a zealot in the right and capacity of the people to govern themselves, but disunion was abhorrent to his conception of state rights. For several years just prior to the war he edited the semi-weekly Southern Intelligencer, at Austin. The crisis of 1860 found him at the head of the Union party of Texas ardently supporting Douglas for the presidency. When the Union party was crushed in the avalanche of secession he retired to his home and devoted the years of the Civil War to writing. During this period, subjected though he was to ostracism and constant danger, he prepared for publication his Digest of the Laws of Texas (1866) and The Constitution of the United States Defined and Carefully Annotated (1868) both of which works, for their originality and exhaustiveness, added greatly to his fame. Both were republished and the work on the Constitution was translated into Spanish by Nicol s Antonio Calvo, the Argentine jurist. Impoverished by the war and saddened by the loss of relatives and friends, he left for New York in 1866 to attempt to retrieve his fortunes.
In 1869 George Washington Paschal opened a law office with his son, George W. Paschal, Jr. , in Washington, where his reputation as a jurist and political writer had already been firmly established. He became identified with the Republican party after the war, but in 1872 he supported Greeley for the presidency. He waged a steady fight in the press in favor of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. During the last few years of his life he edited as reporter 28 - 31 Texas Reports and compiled A Digest of Decisions Comprising Decisions of the Supreme Courts of Texas and of the United States upon Texas Law (1872 - 1875). The latter is a notable accomplishment in American jurisprudence by reason of the complexity of Texas law, with its fusion of the civil and the common law. During his remaining years in Washington Paschal also lectured at the law school of Georgetown University. In addition to his legal works he was the author of Ninety-Four Years, Agnes Paschal (1871), and many political pamphlets and magazine articles. George Washington Paschal died in Washington on February 16, 1878.
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Politics
George Washington Paschal joined a Constitutional Union party, but then became a member of Republican party. He opposed to Know-Nothingism, Free Soilism, Black Republicanism, and the abolition of slavery.
Personality
Brilliant of mind and facile of pen, George Washington Paschal used his talents to the advancement of his profession and his country.
Connections
George Wasington Paschal was married three times. His second wife was Marcia Duval, by whom he had a daughter, Betty, who became well known in English political and literary life as Mrs. T. P. O'Connor. His third wife, a widow, Mrs. Mary Scoville Harper, was intellectually most congenial and helpful, often assisting him in his indexing and editing.