The Story of the Attempted Assassination of Justice Field
By a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of California
By Hon. George C. Gorham
Note by the Publishers
Mr. Gorham is a life-long friend of Justice Field. He was his clerk when the latter held the Alcalde’s Court in Marysville, in 1850; and was Clerk of the U.. Circuit Court of the District of California when it was organized, after Judge Field’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Bench. Subsequently, and for several years, he was Secretary of the U.S. Senate. Since his retirement from office he has resided in Washington. For a part of the time he edited a Republican paper in that city, but of late years he has been chiefly engaged in literary works, of which the principal one is the life and history of the late Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton.