A Narrative Of Andersonville: Drawn From The Evidence Elicited On The Trial Of Henry Wirz, The Jailee.
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Published in 1866, this is the story of Andersonville Prison for Union soldiers during the Civil War, being drawn for the evidence from the trial of Henry Wirz the Commandant of the prison.
A Narrative of Andersonville, Drawn from the Evidence Elicited on the Trial of H. Wirz
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A Narrative of Andersonville: Drawn from the Evidence Elicited on the Trial of Henry Wirz, the Jailer. With the Argument of Col. N.P. Chipman, Judge Advocate
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A Narrative of Andersonville, Drawn from The Evidence Elicited on The Trial of Henry Wirz, The Jailer. with The Argument of Col. N.P. Chipman, Judge Advocate
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Harvard Law School Library
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1866
Ambrose Spencer was an American congressman and jurist. He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge James H. Peck of the U. S. District Court for the District of Missouri.
Background
Ambrose was the second son of Philip and Abigail (Moore) Spencer, was born on December 13, 1765 in Salisbury, Connecticut, United States. He was descended from William Spencer, who came to New England with his brothers about 1630 and later was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut. Philip Spencer was an iron dealer and an ardent Whig in the Revolution who furnished cannon and supplies to the American armies.
Education
Ambrose, with his elder brother, was prepared for college under a Presbyterian minister in Canaan and in 1779 was admitted to Yale; in 1782 he transferred to Harvard, where he was graduated with honors in 1783. Until 1785 he studied law at Sharon, Connecticut, under John Canfield.
Career
After three years as clerk in law offices in Claverack and Hudson, New York, Spencer was admitted to the bar in December 1788. In 1786 he was appointed clerk of the city of Hudson.
In 1796 he was made assistant attorney general of Columbia and Dutchess counties, and in 1797 he was a member of the Council of Appointment. Elected with DeWitt Clinton in 1800 to the all-powerful Council of Appointment, Spencer entered upon two decades of almost undisputed dictatorship of politics in New York. With a thoroughness rarely equaled in partisan politics, he and Clinton inaugurated the spoils system in New York by wholesale removals. The only high office untouched was that of attorney general; but the incumbent, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, resigned in 1802 to make way for Spencer, no doubt by virtue of a bargain between the two, though Spencer denied it emphatically.
He was appointed to the supreme court bench, February 3, 1804, and though he remained there until 1823, becoming chief justice in 1819, his power and activity in politics increased rather than abated.
In 1812 Spencer separated from Clinton on account of the latter's attitude toward the Bank of America, the reelection of Governor D. D. Tompkins, and the war with Great Britain; possibly these factors were augmented also by family differences occasioned by his third marriage (Spencer to James Clinton).
In 1816 he suddenly healed the breach with Clinton and forced him from retirement against the party's wishes. Dissatisfaction with Spencer's autocratic manner as well as his autocratic power, together with a growing feeling against judges in politics, produced a reaction against his rule which found expression in the New York constitutional convention of 1821 and in the person of Martin Van Buren.
The amendments abolishing the Council of Appointment, extending the suffrage, and popularizing the judiciary were direct blows at Spencer, who, as a member of the convention from Albany, opposed them to the last. His regard for the sanctity of the eighteenth-century safeguards of property and privilege led him to refuse to sign the new constitution. Spencer's great ability as a jurist has been obscured by the prominence and fury of his political activities.
He was accused of allowing politics to influence his decisions, as in Tillotson vs. Cheetham and In the Case of John V. N. Yates.
He retired in 1839 to Lyons, New York, where he took up agriculture. He died in 1848.
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Personality
With dark flashing eyes, energetic, domineering manner, and often vehement speech, Spencer was capable of inspiring fear, hostility, and admiration in his contemporaries.
Quotes from others about the person
With a trace of provincialism, Henry Adams declared that "Ambrose Spencer's politics were inconsistent enough to destroy the good name of any man in New England; but he became a Chief Justice of ability and integrity".
Connections
He married Laura Canfield on February 18, 1784. His first wife, who had borne eight children, died in 1807, and shortly afterward he married Mary, sister of DeWitt Clinton and widow of Burrage Norton. She died a few months later, and in September 1809 he married her sister Catherine (Clinton) Norton, widow of Samuel, the brother of Burrage.