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mediate success and the delays to which a young lawyer 
must inevitably submit, they, in view of his recent mar¬ 
riage, took on a serious aspect and prompted him to accept 
the position of associate principal in the Carlier Institute, in 
New York city. 
His interest in school-work and the pleasure of authorship 
into which he drifted banished for a time, as he thought, 
the original purpose of his life; but the influence of these 
early studies in law was always with him, showing itself 
first in his editorials treating of international questions, 
then in his lectures on the laws of nations, and finally in 
the outline he drew of a School of Comparative Jurispru¬ 
dence. At this institute it was his duty to give instruction 
in Latin and Greek. As a conscientious teacher he care¬ 
fully prepared the lesson for the morrow, but, as a student 
storing up knowledge for the future, he committed to mem¬ 
ory the text for each recitation. This will explain to those 
who have marvelled at the richness of his quotations and 
their aptness that he was giving a part of himself, not an 
acquisition for the specific occasion. 
His contributions to the press just referred to, because of 
the correctness of style, beauty of diction, and vigorous 
reasoning, attracted attention and ultimately resulted in an 
invitation, in 1850, from Messrs. Gales and Seaton to assist 
in the editorial work of the “ National Intelligencer.” This 
paper was then a recognized power in the entire country, 
and although at one time Republican in politics and after¬ 
wards an exponent of Whig principles, its editorials, 
frequently exhaustive essays upon current topics, were 
recognized as reflecting the most reliable expressions of 
dominant principles. 
In 1856 Mr. Welling became associate editor in name, 
though in reality a larger part of the conduct of the paper 
fell to him. It now became more pronounced in its en¬ 
dorsement of the Whig party, though upon many subjects 
it asserted its independence. In glancing over the files of 
the “ Intelligencer ” marked by him, it is exceedingly inter- 
