Caleb Cushing

Diplomat

1800-01-17 – 1879-01-02

American diplomat, lawyer, and politician who served in numerous federal roles, including U.S. attorney general and minister to Spain. He was a prominent nineteenth-century figure in U.S. foreign and legal affairs.

Books by Caleb Cushing

The Treaty of Washington

its negotiation, execution, and the discussions relating thereto
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Speech delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, October 27, 1857

also, speech delivered in City Hall, Newburyport, October 31, 1857
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Outlines of the life and public services, civil and military, of William Henry Harrison
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Quotes by Caleb Cushing

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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