g his arrival in
that city Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, Prime Minister of the King, with two young
Hawaiian princes. After the treaty was made, he returned east and for
six months edited _The Nashville Union_, when he again assumed charge of
_The Washington Union_. President Pierce subsequently appointed him
Minister to Venezuela, where he remained until 1859, and then returned
to Washington, where he practiced his profession for the remainder of
his life. It was while arguing an important case before the Supreme
Court that he was stricken, and he died on the 16th of March, 1867. He
sustained a high reputation as an admiralty lawyer as well as for his
knowledge of international jurisprudence. I have now before me a letter
addressed to his widow by Wendell Phillips only three days after his
death. It is one of the valued possessions of Mr. Eames's daughter, who
is my niece and the wife of that genial Scotchman, Alexander Penrose
Gordon-Cumming. It reads:

QUINCY, Illinois, March 19, 1867.

My dear friend,

I have just crossed from the other side of the Mississippi,
and am saddened by learning from the papers my old and dear
friend's death.

The associations that bind us together go back many, many
years. We were boys together in sunny months full of frolic,
plans and hopes. The merriment and the seriousness, the toil
and the ambition of those days all cluster round him as
memory brings him to me in the flush of his youth. I have
seen little of him of late years, as you know, but the roots
of our friendship needed no constant care; they were too
strong to die or wilt, and when we did meet it was always
with the old warmth and intimacy. I feel more alone in the
world now he has gone. One by one the boy's comrades pass
over the river and life loses with each some of its
interest.

I was hoping in coming years, as life grew less busy, to see
more of my old playmate, and this is a very unexpected blow.
Be sure I sympathize with you most tenderly, and could not
resist the impulse to tell you so. Little as we have met, I
owe to your kind and frank interest in me a sense of very
warm and close relation to you--feel as if I had known you
ever so many years. I hope our paths may lead us more
together so that I may learn to know you better and gather
some more distinct ideas of Eames' later years. All h