(Boston, John L. Shorey.)—A temperate legal treatise on this subject
by an accomplished Massachnssets lawyer. The most striking part to an English lawyer, is that in which he states that a judgment of the Supreme Court on the true construction of a clause of the Constitution is not binding on it, so that if the same question were tried again when time had changed the personnel of the Bench it might lawfully be decided differently. The American Constitution, therefore, changes as the opinions of the judges of the Supreme Court change. The English
peoploNill, perhaps, be most surprised to hear that the President's proclamation has not abolished, nor purports te abolish, slavery in any State where it exists. Mr. Lincoln has merely confiscated all the slaves and given them their liberty. Practically, it may be, this must come to much the same thing ; but, theoretically, it is widely different.
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