An Address Delivered Before the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Agricultural Society
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History of a Suit in Equity from its Commencement to its Final Termination
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Election of a Black Republican president, an overt act of aggression on the right of property in slaves: the South urged to adopt concerted action for ... on the 2d day of January, 1860, The
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An Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence: On the Basis of Story's Commentaries, with Notes and References, to English and American Cases, Adapted to the Use of Students (Classic Reprint)
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Is slavery consistent with natural law?: an address delivered before the Virginia State Agricultural Society, at the sixth annual exhibition, at Petersburg, 4th November 1858
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James Philemon Holcombe was an American lawyer, politician and educator. He represented Virginia in the Confederate Congress, and served as a delegate to Virginia Secession Convention. He was also a professor of law at the University of Virginia.
Background
James Philemon Holcombe was born on September 20, 1820 in Powhatan County, Virginia, United States. He was the brother of William Henry Holcombe, and belonged to an intellectual Virginia family. His great-grandfather, Philemon, a grandson of Andrew Holcombe who was transported from England to Barbados for his part in Monmouth's Rebellion, aided in the founding of the academy which became Hampden-Sidney College; his grandfather, also Philemon, was a major on the staff of Lafayette in the Virginia campaign, and in the War of 1812 was commissioned lieutenant-colonel; his father, Doctor William James Holcombe, graduated in medicine at Philadelphia in 1818 and married Ann Eliza Clopton the following year. He later freed all his slaves, aiding the emigration of several to Liberia, and, removing to free soil, settled in Indiana in 1843. James Philemon, the eldest of six sons, was born in Powhatan County, Virginia.
Education
For a time Holcombe's studies were guided by John Cary, a noted teacher of that day; in 1837-1838 he was registered as a sophomore at Yale, and the following September registered at the University of Virginia, but apparently did not complete the work for a degree.
Career
For a short time Holcombe practised law at Fincastle, Virginia, near the Breckinridge ancestral home. About 1844 he went to Cincinnati, where he published, among other works on legal subjects, An Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence, on the Basis of Story's Commentaries (1846); A Selection of Leading Cases upon Commercial Law (1847); Digest of the Dicisions of the Supreme Court of the United States from Its Organization to the Present Time (1848); The Merchants' Book of Reference for Debtor and Creditor, in the United States and Canada (1848); and, with W. Y. Gholson, an edition of John William Smith's Compendium of Mercantile Law (1850). While at Cincinnati he became an earnest student of Swedenborg.
Removing to Alexandria, Virginia, to use the nearby Library of Congress in further professional writing, he was elected (1851) to join Professor John B. Minor as adjunct professor of law at the University of Virginia. In 1854 he was made full professor. Meantime he had become a stanch defender of state rights. Among his published addresses of this period were: Sketches of the Political Issues and Controversies of the Revolution (1856); An Address Delivered before the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Agricultural Society (1858), "on the Right of the State to Institute Slavery"; and The Election of a Black Republican President an Overt Act of Aggression on the Right of Property in Slaves (1860).
Early in 1861 he resigned his professorship to become a candidate for the Virginia secession convention and was elected. He was one of the signers (April 24) of the convention between Virginia and the Confederacy.
Later he was elected to the Confederate Congress, and served from February 20, 1862, to February 13, 1864. On February 19, 1864, he was accredited by President Davis as special commissioner to the North American colonies of Great Britain, with instructions to go to Nova Scotia to defend the men who without Confederate commissions had captured the United States vessel Chesapeake on the high seas, and to claim the vessel as a Confederate prize--instructions which were withdrawn on April 20.
Arriving at Halifax near the close of March, he found the case had been decided, but while there he enjoyed the hospitality of colonial sympathizers with the South. From Halifax he went to Upper Canada to join Clement Claiborne Clay and Jacob Thompson, who were Confederate secret agents. At Niagara in July he cooperated with Clay in opening with the unsuspecting Horace Greeley an unauthorized correspondence, apparently looking toward peace negotiations but really designed to foster the Northern anti-Administration movement and to aid Confederate efforts to secure foreign recognition. After his return from Canada and the reëlection of Lincoln, Holcombe made a report to Secretary Benjamin (November 16), advising further encouragement of disaffection in the North and the use of money and talent without stint with the hope of promoting anarchy and the separation of the Northwest from the United States.
On January 2, 1863, seeking to benefit his health and desiring to provide a home and employment for valuable slaves which his wife had inherited, he had purchased a farm of 600 acres at Bellevue, Bedford County. Settling here at the close of the war, he edited Literature in Letters, a volume of selections which was published in 1866, and in that year opened a private school which attracted students from prominent Southern families. The attendance increased from forty-three students in 1866-1867 to 101 in 1869-1870, but decreased thereafter because of Holcombe's failing health and his natural ineptitude for business. He died at Capon Springs, West Virginia, and was buried in the Presbyterian cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia, beside his parents.
Achievements
Holocombe is remembered as a prominent educator, author of numerous legal texts, and notable politician of Virginia. He was an accomplished orator, and his brilliant speeches exerted considerable influence in bringing about the withdrawal of the state from the Union.
Although Holcombe was a secessionist, he was one of the first to propose a conference of representatives of each section with a view to settlement without war.
He was known to speak widely in favor of slavery.
Connections
On November 4, 1841, Holcombe married Ann Selden Watts, the daughter of Colonel Edward and Elizabeth (Breckinridge) Watts. They had six children.
