William H. Seward, speaking in the Senate of the United States, March 11, 1850, on the question of the admission of California into the Union as a Free State, used the following language: "'The Constitution,' he said, 'regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are His stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.' This public recognition by a Senator of the United States that the laws of the Creator were 'higher' than those of human enactment excited much astonishment and indignation, and called forth, in Congress and out of it, measureless abuse upon its author." _H. Wilson, History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, volume 2, pages 262-263._ In the agitations that followed upon the adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the other compromise measures attending the admission of California, this Higher Law Doctrine was much talked about. HIGHLAND CLANS. See CLANS. HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, See SCOTCH HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND. HIKENILDE—STRETE. See ROMAN ROADS IN BRITAIN. HILDEBRAND (Pope Gregory VII.), and the Papacy. See PAPACY: A. D. 1056-1122; GERMANY: A. D. 973-1122; and CANOSSA. HILDEBRAND, KING OF THE LOMBARDS, A. D. 743-744. HILL, Isaac, in the "Kitchen Cabinet" of President Jackson. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1829. HILL, Rowland, and the adoption of penny-postage. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1840. HILTON HEAD, The capture of. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861 (OCTOBER-DECEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA-GEORGIA). HIMATION, The. An article of dress in the nature of a cloak, worn by both men and women among the ancient Greeks. It "was arranged so that the one corner was thrown over the left shoulder in front, so as to be attached to the body by means of the left arm. On the back the dress was pulled toward the right side, so as to cover it completely up to the right shoulder, or, at least, to the armpit, in which latter case the right shoulder remained uncovered. Finally, the himation was again thrown over the left shoulder, so that the ends fell over the back. … A second way of arranging the himation, which left the right arm free, was more picturesque, and is therefore usually found in pictures." _E. Guhl and W. Koner, Life of the Greeks and Romans, section 42._ ----------HIMERA: Start-------- HIMERA, Battle of. See SICILY: B. C. 480. HIMERA: Destroyed by Hannibal.