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An Inquiry Into The Causes Of The Public Distress
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William Beach Lawrence
G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1834
Business & Economics; Banks & Banking; Business & Economics / Banks & Banking; Union Committee (New York, N.Y.); Union committee/ (1834
William Beach Lawrence was an American politician, jurist and writer. He served as lieutenant governor of Rhode Island from 1851 to 1852 under Governor Philip Allen and as an acting governor in 1852.
Background
William Beach Lawrence was born in New York City, New York, United States, the son of Isaac and Cornelia (Beach) Lawrence. His earliest American paternal ancestor, Thomas Lawrence, emigrated from England and had settled in Newtown, L. I, by 1656. His maternal grandfather was for many years assistant rector of Trinity Church, New York. From birth he had the advantages of opulence and social station. His father was a man of wealth and influence, a presidential elector in 1820 and one-time president of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States.
Education
The boy was by nature studious and precocious, and in 1818 he was graduated with high honors from Columbia College. After graduation he studied law in the famous law school in Litchfield, Connecticut. The years 1821-1823 Lawrence spent in Europe, where he enjoyed the entrée into the most exclusive circles, thanks to letters of introduction to Lord Holland, Lafayette, and others. Few young Americans have ever been accorded a more distinguished reception abroad. In Paris he pursued studies in law at the Sorbonne and the École de Droit and attended the lectures of Say on political economy. It was at this time that he conceived the interest in international law that was to be the absorbing concern of his life and the field of his greatest achievement.
Career
For three years after his return to America Lawrence practised law in New York. In 1826 he was appointed secretary of legation in London, and in 1827, as chargé d'affaires, he conducted the correspondence regarding the northeast boundary. For the next twenty years Lawrence lived in New York, practising his profession, pursuing his investigations in jurisprudence and public law, writing, and lecturing. Among the products of this period may be noted the Two Lectures on Political Economy (1831); The Bank of the United States (1831), an argument for its constitutionality and utility, reprinted from the North American Review, April 1831; The Origin and Nature of the Representative and Federative Institutions of the United States (1832); "The Public Distress" (American Quarterly Review, June 1834); a History of the Negotiations in Reference to the Eastern and Northeastern Boundaries of the United States (1841); an address on the Colonisation and Subsequent History of New Jersey (1843); and an unpublished memoir of Albert Gallatin.
His celebrated argument in the case of the German Reformed Church, by which he obtained a reversal of the Chancellor's decision, was published in 1845. In 1850 he took up his residence in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1851 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island, and in 1852, during the administration of Philip Allen, he served as acting governor.
In 1855 appeared his annotated edition of the Elements of International Law, by Henry Wheaton, his long-time and intimate friend. Three years later he published a treatise entitled Visitation and Search. The political issues of the fifties also enlisted his interest. While not defending slavery, he condoned it as an economic necessity and vehemently denounced abolitionists as dangerous fanatics. He stood for state's rights, but not for secession, yet he opposed coercion and after the Civil War protested against the attempt to "hold the South in vassalage. "
In 1863 Lawrence brought out his second edition of Wheaton. Although his learning was universally recognized, his political views gave offense in certain quarters and an attempt was made to discredit his work as "disloyal. " Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , 1815-1882, was engaged to prepare a "loyal" edition. Lawrence charged Dana with piracy and was sustained in his contention by an opinion of the Court to the effect that many of the notes in the Dana edition infringed his rights.
In 1866 he attended the Social Science Congress at Bristol and was named a member of a commission to compile a code of international law, a project which, together with an international court, he strongly advocated. Two years later appeared the first volume of the Commentaire sur les Éléments du Droit International. Later three other volumes followed. Lawrence published in 1866 a pamphlet on the Disabilities of American Women Married Abroad; in 1871, The Treaty of Washington; Letters from Hon. William Beach Lawrence; and in 1874, Administration of Equity Jurisprudence.
Meanwhile he was contributing to the Revue de Droit International, the London Law Magazine, the Transactions of the Social Science Association, and other periodicals, and also lecturing on international law in Columbian University, Washington. In 1873 he defended the case of the steamship Circassian before the Joint High Commission, obtaining a reversal of the decision of the Supreme Court.
Achievements
During his governship Lawrence urged the abolition of imprisonment for debt and opposed, on constitutional grounds, the enactment of a law prohibiting the sale of liquor. He wrote some important essays and books about international law. His edition of the "Elements of International Law", by Henry Wheaton, was a work of extraordinary erudition, which at once took rank as a standard textbook and an authoritative commentary.
His argument, published under the title "Belligerent and Sovereign Rights as Regards Neutrals During the War of Secession" (1873), was considered both in England and America as an authoritative exposition of certain important points of public law.
In temperament and manner Lawrence combined the courtliness of the aristocrat with the candor and directness of the democrat. In literary style he was inclined to be diffuse. He was an omnivorous reader and an indefatigable student. Everything that came from his pen testifies to a prodigious memory, to a penetrating mind, and to analytical and reasoning powers of the first order.
Connections
In 1821 Lawrence married Esther, the daughter of Archibald Gracie.