Under the Stars and Bars: Civil War Classic Library
(From the archives comes the Civil War Classic Library. Do...)
From the archives comes the Civil War Classic Library. Dozens of books out of print for years is now back in print for the casual reader and the collector. Now is the time to collect and build a classic library and get them all before they fall out of print forever replaced by digital files.
(The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American western film direc...)
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, and featuring Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."The film was adapted from the 1940 novel of the same name, written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Histories Of The Several Regiments And Battalions From North Carolina: In The Great War 1861-'65
(Volume 3 Published in 1901, this is a collection of the h...)
Volume 3 Published in 1901, this is a collection of the histories of the regiments and battalions from North Carolina that served the Confederate States during the Civil War. Includes the 43rd through the 69th Regiment.
Histories Of The Several Regiments And Battalions From North Carolina: In The Great War 1861-'65
(Volume 1 Published in 1901, this is a collection of the h...)
Volume 1 Published in 1901, this is a collection of the histories of the regiments and battalions from North Carolina that served the Confederate States during the Civil War. Includes the Bethel Regiment through the 16th Regiment.
Walter McKenzie Clark was an American jurist and politician. He served as an associate justice from 1889 to 1903 and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1903 to 1924.
Background
Walter McKenzie Clark was the son of David Clark, later brigadier-general of North Carolina militia, and of Anna M. (Thorne) Clark. He was born on August 19, 1846, in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States, where the Clarks and Thornes had lived and prospered since leaving Virginia three generations before. Broad lands, books, and influential connections were his heritage, and with them a keen sense of personal and civic responsibility.
Education
In 1859 Walter studied with Professor Ralph H. Graves at Belmont School in Granville County. From 1860 to 1861 he was educated at Captain Tew’s Military Academy in Hillsborough. Later he enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 1964. He studied law on Wall Street in New York and at Columbia Law School in Washington, D. C. , in 1866.
Career
Clark served as a drill-master in the Confederate States Army; at sixteen he was adjutant of the 35th North Carolina Regiment, with a reputation for coolness and capacity won at Antietam and Fredericksburg. He was major (temporarily lieutenant-colonel) in the fighting Junior Reserves, and thus was skirmish commander against Sherman in the state’s biggest battle.
In the 1870s, Clark moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and started to practice law. He served as Halifax magistrate, as aide to Governor Worth, as counsel to local railroads, and as editorial director of the Democratic Raleigh News; he attracted attention through his “Mudcut Circular” (1880) and his sketch of Methodism in North Carolina (1881). He toured Europe in 1881; and he built up—in Raleigh after 1873—an extensive law practise.
Appointed in 1883, and elected the next year, a superior court judge, in 1888 he threatened to contest the governorship but accepted instead a place on the supreme court bench, by appointment in 1889 and election in 1890. Toying with the Populists in 1894 and thus, alone of the Democrats, holding over under the Fusionist regime, he was unbeatable in his campaign for chief justice in 1902 notwithstanding opposition of business interests which supported the Republican candidate. He continued chief justice until his death.
During these forty years Clark’s was always “the youngest mind on the bench. ” Authorities and precedents suffered severely at his hands; and when his colleagues refused to follow, men said, “Judge Clark’s dissenting opinion of today becomes the law of to-morrow. ” Taxation of railroads despite old exemptions, adequate local support of public schools despite apparent constitutional limitations, inclusion of water supply among the “necessary” expenses of municipalities, a severe narrowing of the doctrine of “contributory negligence, ” legislative control over offices notwithstanding office-holders—these illustrate his peculiar influence and its direction.
During this period were prepared his Annotated Code of Civil Procedure in several editions, his highly commended “Appeal and Error” running a thousand pages in the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure (1901), and his standard Supreme Court Reports, with annotations and index, in 164 volumes. Permitting himself social life only in the Church and in Masonry and toiling far into early morning hours, he translated Constant’s Memoirs of Napoleon in three volumes (1895), collected and edited sixteen volumes of the State Records (1895 - 1901), and inspired as well as edited the Histories of North Carolina Regiments in five volumes (1901). A clear and incisive writer, his political thinking was formulated in multitudinous addresses and magazine' and newspaper articles.
In 1912, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a liberal reformer against fellow Democrat Furnifold Simmons.
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Politics
Clark was a member of the Democratic Party.
Views
Clark was an extensive farmer and always identified with progressive farm movements, but his radicalism was probably motivated by his intellectual committal to democracy. In behalf of this he branded Blackstone and Coke as bad influences, condemned “usurpation” by an irresponsible federal judiciary, advocated woman’s suffrage, and justified Taft’s playful remark that he would not “trust the Constitution with Judge Clark over night. ” “Big Business” was his bete noir. He still-hunted for the peanut trust in Halifax, fought the tobacco trust’s influence in Trinity College, tried to curb the power trust—wished, indeed, to outlaw the nefarious things.
Quotations:
“Every age should have laws based upon its own intelligence and its own ideas of right and wrong. ”
Connections
Clark married in 1874 Susan Washington Graham, the daughter of the former secretary of the navy, by whom he had seven children.