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of its contents. We wish merely to welcome it among | "A Visit to the Red Sulphur Springs of Virginia, during the

us, and to promise the readers of the Messenger, a full criticism of the manner in which Mr. Prescott has executed the task confided to him. At the mention of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, every American heart will beat with emotion. It perhaps was never before allowed to one individual, to be the actor in so many important scenes, as distinguished the career of Isabella, the magnanimous, intelligent and courageous, yet effeminate Spanish queen. With her name is associated the conquest of Granada, the conquest of Naples, the establishment of the modern inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the revival of letters, the discovery and colonization of America. The excellent taste with which this work has been brought forth, reflects great credit upon the skill of the American Stationers' Company.

"The Spirit of the Age." An Address delivered before the two
Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina, by
Hon. Henry L. Pinckney. Published by the request of the
Philanthropic Society. 1936,"

Summer of 1837; with Observations on the Waters. By Henry
Huntt, M. D. 1838.

Dr. Huntt has given us an interesting account of the curative powers of the Red Sulphur water, in diseases of the lungs; and for the benefit of our readers who may feel an interest in this subject, we will briefly state, that in the cure of the incipient stage of phthisis pulmonalis, or consumption, recognised by hemorrhage, attended with a quick pulse, cough and hectic fever, the Red Sulphur Spring has established an unrivalled reputation. In all the cases of this form, which came under the notice of the Doctor, the patients were much benefited and most of them restored. Dr. H. was himself attacked with hemoptysis and other symptoms indi cating an approaching pulmonary disease of a formida ble character. A residence of a few weeks, at the Red Sulphur, with the free use of the water, accomplished a cure. We earnestly trust that all who repair to this medicinal fountain may be effectually restored, and that subsequent experience will establish the fact, that from the mountains of Virginia issues the healing balm, the antidote to that dire scourge which moves unmolested through our land, despoiling it of the fairest portion of our race.

We have just received a copy of the above able address, and, notwithstanding considerable time has elapsed since its delivery, we shall venture a word of approbation. It is a well written and logically arranged essay, and reflects great credit upon the acquirements and morality of its highly gifted author. His extensive research and classic taste, has thrown about HISTORICAL ERROR CORRECTED. the subject all the ornaments of a well stored mind; while the occasion-the separation of youthful friends at the close of a scholastic life-lends a peculiar interest to his christian counsel; and we doubt not, that in after years, the graduates of 1836, will look back with pride and gratitude to the admonitor of their youth.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of
Virginia. Session of 1837-38."

This deservedly popular institution of learning continues to sustain its claim upon the South, and notwithstanding the distracted state of the monetary affairs of our country, has its usual number of students. The number of the present class is 230, and although 39 less than the last, is no evidence of a decline in the scholastic or literary departments, but entirely referable to the changes which occurred in the medical department. We have appended the number in each class for the last two sessions.

In the 3d volume of Jefferson's Correspondence, page 393, is a letter from Mr. Jefferson to Colonel John Taylor of Caroline county, dated June 1, 1798, which contains the following pas sage:

which gave me an opportunity of observing what you said as to

"Mr. New showed me your letter on the subject of the patent,

the effect with you of public proceedings, and that it was not unwise now to estimate the separate mass of Virginia and North Carolina, with a view to their separate existence." After which Mr. Jefferson proceeds to urge a variety of argumenta against a division of the states.

As the biographer of Mr. Jefferson, I was induced to refer to this letter for the purpose of repelling one of the calumnies against him, and in paying a merited tribute to his just and patriotic views on the value of the Union, some of my remarks exhibited Colonel Taylor in disadvantageous contrast. It has, however, been lately discovered; on comparing Mr. Jefferson's original letter with the published copy, that he had, in citing Colonel Taylor's language to Mr. New, said, "it was not unusual now to estimate," instead of not "unwise," &c., by reason of which mistake, Colonel Taylor is made to express, 26 his own, sentiments which he merely attributed to others. This error has been the subject of a recent correspondence between Mrs. William P. Taylor, Mr. T. J. Randolph, and myself, and it appears, on investigation, to have arisen from the obscurity of the press-copy, from which this letter, in common with the others of the published correspondence, was printed. These press-copies, though in general quite legible and plait, are occasionally so faint that they can be decyphered only by the 1836-37.-Whole number of matriculates, 269. An- aid of the adjoining words; and it so happens that the letter in cient Languages, 78; Modern Languages, 65; Mathe-question is one of the most imperfect in the collection. matics, 135; Natural Philosophy, 110; Chemistry, 130; Medicine, 55; Anatomy and Surgery, 61; Moral Philosophy, 48; Law, 55. Number of tickets taken, 743. 1837-38.-Whole number of matriculates, 230. Ancient Languages, 68; Modern Languages, 71; Mathematics, 115; Natural Philosophy, 88; Chemistry, 78; Medicine, 32; Anatomy and Surgery, 32; Moral Philosophy, 80; Law, 67. Number of tickets taken, 631.

The decline in several of the academic schools is compensated by the increase in others, so that in this department of the University there is no material falling off.

In taking this notice of the error, which I truly regret, as well at had Mr. Jefferson's letter been printed as it was original as my agency in giving it diffusion, it is proper for me to declare written, I should not have felt myself warranted in making the references to Colonel Taylor's opinions to which I have adverted. rejoice in its detection, not only because the injustice to Colonel I cannot forbear to add, that since the mistake has occurred, I Taylor's memory may be thereby repaired, but also because the weight of his name can no longer be brought to bear on a prin ciple of our national policy on which I consider every other to be more or less dependent.

GEORGE TUCKER, University of Virginia, March 19, 1838.

notice should be inserted in the Enquirer, Whig and National It is the wish of the parties concerned that the preceding Intelligencer.

• Life of Jefferson, II. p. 36, 37.

VOL. IV.

T. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.

RICHMOND, JUNE, 1838.

JEREMIAH T. CHASE.*

Maryland boasts of no purer patriot than JEREMIAH TOWNLEY CHASE, who was born at Baltimore, May 23, 1748.

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conflict of liberty with tyranny: innocent blood has been shed our cities are conflagrated and our temples profaned: helpless families are flying at midnight from their homes: misery and wretchedness now clothe our land with sackcloth and ashes. Behold, the haughty foe now holds in his grasp the cities of New York and Schools were then rare, and conducted on a very Philadelphia, while disease, exposure and famine daily limited scale, and his education, like that of Washing-waste our little army at Valley Forge! See them, naked ton, was by no means liberal. His mind, however, being and exposed to snow-storms, while the heart of their naturally strong, overcame the difficulties and impedi-chief is dissolved in sorrow! That illustrious man now ments arising from the want of early culture. Certain it is, that no bosom ever glowed more intensely with the fire of patriotism; for in the dawn of our revolution, young Chase is found among the foremost of those gallant spirits who resisted the tyranny of Great Britain, and swore that they would be free. He was a member of the first committee of observation for Balti-beyond it. The time will arrive when our fears shall more, whose duty it was to watch the movements of the enemies of liberty, and with vestal vigilance, guard the rights of their oppressed country.

When the tidings of the battle of Lexington reached Baltimore in the spring of '75, Mr. Chase enrolled himself as a private in the first company of militia raised in the state, and thus contributed to call into action that indomitable spirit of the Maryland line, which afterwards won for itself imperishable laurels at Cowpens, Guilford and Eutaw.

looks to us for aid; let it not be in vain. Cast your eye. to the prison shop. Hear ye not the groans of our starving brethren, held in cruel captivity since November '76. The genius of America cries to us for their relief. Now is the time to strike for our country. Tell me not of the portentous cloud hanging over us: look

vanish; when war shall end, and peace spread her balmy wing over this once fair, but now desolated land. Forget not that in August, '76, we proclaimed to the astonished world, that we would lay down our lives in defence of our dearest rights: that we would 'do or die.' Shall we now shrink from the contest and leave Washington to perish? The eyes of unnumbered millions are upon us : let us do justice to our posterity: the gratitude of future ages shall constitute our rich reward. It is true that our resources are scanty: our soldiers are undisciplined: munitions of war are hardly to be obtained: yet will aid come from unexpected sources. He who rules human destiny, will awaken the sympathy of European nations, who will supply our necessities and assist us in this mighty conflict." This appeal was irresistible-under the energetic administration of Thomas Johnson, first governor of the state, supplies of cattle and flour were sent to the army troops were recruited and disciplined: the energies of war called into action: and the unsubdued spirit of Maryland felt in the cabinet and the field, until the banner of Ameri

In the summer of '76, the convention met at Annapolis, to establish a form of government, and continued its session until August 14th, when the bill of rights and present constitution were adopted; founded on the principles of Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and other bulwarks of English freedom, and beyond all, on the inalienable right of self-government. They declared that the people alone were the true fountain of all power, and could alter or abolish their form of government at their sovereign will. This was a new and untried experiment. History furnished no parallel: it shed but feeble light on their path. Yet did this assem-ca floated on the heights of York Town. Mr. Chase bly, amid the din of battle, proclaim to the universe, that they would maintain their rights, or die in the struggle. They undertook the enterprize under a perfect conviction that they must expiate their offence on a gibbet, if victory did not settle on their banner. I find, on examining the journal, that Mr. Chase was in constant attendance on all the deliberations of the convention.

From this period until 1779, when he removed to Annapolis, he represented Baltimore in the House of Delegates. During these three gloomy and appalling years, when the stoutest hearts were almost ready to despair, Mr. Chase cheered and animated the House with his powerful and eloquent speeches. "Our cause," he would say, "is just: Heaven is on our side: it is the

*We are indebted to a gentleman of Maryland for the Sketches of Jeremiah T. Chase, Daniel Sheffey, and Roger B. Taney. We are also promised for our July No., from the same pen, Memoirs of Judge White and of Samuel Cooper, of the revolu. tionary army, both of whom are now living in Georgetown, D. C.

was universally esteemed one of the most conspicuous actors in the war of independence, which terminated with the treaty of peace in '83. He was a member of Congress at Annapolis, when on the 23d of December of this year, the father of his country surrendered into the hands of that august assembly, his commission as commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States, which he had received in June, '75. He was now in his fifty-first year, in the full possession of all his powers; enjoying unbounded fame: the army, which he had just left at Newburgh, ready to clothe him with the imperial purple. Disdaining the proudest trophies of ambition, he comes before Congress, and begs them to receive the insignia of his authority. He is dressed in his military costume, surrounded by his aids de camp Walker and Humphreys; and in the presence of Howard, Smallwood, Williams, and the now venerable Mayor of Baltimore, who had fought by his side, and well knew the toils and perils he had encountered, he asks to become a private citizen of that country for VOL. IV.-44

whose independence he had oft perilled his life. Carroll, astrous end which so soon awaited him on the mounof Carrollton, Madison and Monroe beheld the scene-tains of Gilboah, he could not have exhibited an apthe admiring nations of the earth echoed his praise, as pearance more awfully enchanting, than did the judge he retired from public admiration to the enchanting in his address to the grand jury on this occasion. The lawns of Mount Vernon. Charles the 5th resigned his silence of death reigned through the house, as he comcrown to Philip, only when he was incapable of wear-menced his charge. The subject was duelling. His ing it: Cincinnatus surrendered his second dictatorship mind had been led to its contemplation from the recent of Rome, after holding his power only fourteen days: death of a son of Robert Bowie, Esq. then governor of but Washington for more than eight years reigned in the state, and a friend of Mr. Chase. The youth was the hearts of his countrymen with unexampled sway, an officer in the army of the United States, of noble during which period it might be supposed that lust of form, chivalric spirit and amiable bearing, who fell in power had obtained such an ascendancy as would have the morning of life on the banks of the Mississippi, tempted him to enlarge and perpetuate the influence at the shrine of this cruel and gothic custom. His which he now possessed. By this single act alone, he melancholy end filled Prince George county, where he at once descends from the pinnacle of glory to his own had been reared, with undissembled sorrow. As the peaceful fireside. judge progressed, you saw before your eyes the bleeding corpse of the unfortunate man consigned to the lonely grave in a distant land; the forms of his mourning parents were visible: instantly the jury and audience were dissolved into tears. Presently he spoke of the Divine law, and how the shedding of blood was denounced at the death of the first martyr: that the Saviour of the world had inculcated peace and good will among men, and the forgiveness of injuries; and that he had died on the cross praying for his enemies. The laws of our country, too, said he, solemnly forbid this savage practice, which desolates our firesides, and drives the happiness of society far from the haunts of man. I invoke you, then, in the name of all these high and holy considerations, to rally round those laws which you have sworn to sustain, and assist the court in extirpating this wide-wasting iniquity. The charge continued for an hour: its effect was thrilling and pathetic.

Having served with much honor in Congress the term for which he was elected, Mr. Chase engaged extensively in the practice of law, and occupied a very distinguished rank in his profession. The reports of Harris and Mr. Henry show that his cases were argued with much ability, evincing great labor in the examination of authorities: his profound learning, combined with distinguished clearness of reasoning, adorned with a manner plain and persuasive, always delighted and instructed the court and jury.

The constitution of the United States had been adopted by the convention at Philadelphia in September, 1787. Washington, who presided over that illustrious body of statesmen, with all the weight and simplicity of his character, recommended it to the ratification of Congress, with an affection and earnestness which equalled the great law-giver of the Jews. Like him he had led his countrymen from bondage to liberty, and like him now gave them the law of their future action. When this constitution was submitted to the people of Maryland, in convention assembled, Mr. Chase was its ardent, untiring, and able advocate. He coincided with Hamilton, Madison and Jay, in the fundamental doctrines contained in their joint work, and was eminently useful in removing the doubts and quieting the fears of his fellow-citizens as to many portions of that extraordinary charter of their political rights. From 1794 to 1805, Mr. Chase acted as chief judge of the general court of Maryland. During this period, no state in our Union beheld a more brilliant constellation of professional talent, than was now exhibited at the bar of this court; yet the decisions of judge Chase were not only admired by all, but very seldom reversed by the appellate tribunal. On the abolition of the General Court, he was appointed chief judge of the third judicial district, comprehending the counties of Anne Arundel, Calvert and Montgomery, and presiding judge of the Court of Appeals, which station he filled with consummate ability until 1824, when he resigned his commission.

It was in the fall of 1809 I first saw this venerable man at Rockville, where he was holding court. His locks were white as snow, floating on his shoulders; his countenance that of an angel: his brilliant eye combined the fire of genius with the meekness of the dove: his form bent under the weight of years: his voice feeble and tremulous: he seemed the representative of both worlds. When the prophet arose on the night previous to the battle, to admonish the ill-fated Saul of the dis

On the 23d May, 1828, this pious judge was no more. In his lofty and useful career, he had pronounced the law affecting his fellow creatures, with the abiding conviction that he was himself soon to be passed upon by the Great Judge of both quick and dead: "Thou, God, seest me," was written on all his decisions. In his last hour, Addison called to his bedside an infidel young man, and requested him to witness how a christian could die. Judge Chase might not only have imitated the example, but have appealed to the whole world to point to any act of his well-spent life which fell short of the most perfect purity of intention, or which did not aim to promote the welfare of his fellow-men.

DANIEL SHEFFEY.

DANIEL SHEFFEY was born in Frederick, Maryland, in 1770. His education was inconsiderable. At an early age, his father taught him the trade of a shoemaker. He continued to work with him until he attained manhood. The house yet stands, where he spent, in this occupation, many long and wearisome years of his life. While engaged on his bench, he was frequently observ ed, during leisure moments, to be intensely occupied in the perusal of some author for his instruction or amusement. By moonlight he was to be found in his father's garden, making observations of the heavenly bodies, with telescopes, which he had borrowed: and then again he was buried in profound meditation, while detecting

the errors of mathematical or philosophical works, which | trying crisis. His speech in favor of a renewal of the occasionally met his eye. The arcana of nature, and the charter of the first bank of the United States, was a mysteries of astronomy, constantly exercised his strong masterly combination of sound argument and concluand fertile genius. His more discerning friends saw that sive facts: for three hours profound silence prevailed; he would one day be ranked among the distinguished and the most experienced statesmen were astonished at men of his country; yet none were so generous and this exhibition of his talents. He was opposed to the disinterested as to assist his efforts with their pecuniary declaration of war in 1812. Ever on the side of his resources, or to polish the unsightly diamond with the country, he felt indignant at the injuries which our fostering hand of education. His time was chiefly commerce had sustained on the high seas: the impressspent at his trade. Arrived at manhood, he left his ment of our seamen, and the murder of our citizens father's house, with no other property than his tools, within our own waters: yet he thought that these diffiand travelled on foot to Winchester, Virginia, where culties might be adjusted by negotiation, and that the he worked as a journeyman for some months, in the last resort of nations might be avoided. He painted in shop of a respectable mechanic. Having thus raised glowing colors the horrors of war and the blessings of funds sufficient to supply his present wants, he sat out peace, and spoke of the treasure which must be wasted, again in pursuit of employment, halting at the different and the blood which would be shed; the danger to villages through which he passed, on his route along our civil institutions amidst the clangor of arms and the valley, in order to raise his expenses by his labor, the shout of victory, and implored his fellow citizens to until he arrived at Abbeville, Wythe county, as poor as pause ere the country was plunged into the dangers ever. He knew no one: bore no letters of introduction; which he foreboded. It was in vain. Mr. Sheffey, was friendless and destitute: a stranger in a strange however, always rejoiced in the success of our arms. land. Here he commenced at his trade once more. The Sometimes in the ardor of debate, he was attacked novelty and originality of his character, and the flashes rather uncourteously by some of his political opponents, of genius which enlivened his conversation, often com- but they never escaped the severity of his retort, and were often entirely overwhelmed. The celebrated and pelled his newly acquired friends to look on the eccentric youth with wonder and amazement. He became eccentric John Randolph of Roanoke, was for many popular, and was finally received as a student into the years the Ajax Telamon of the House of Representaoffice of Alexander Smyth, Esq. an eminent lawyer in tives, whose bitterness of satire no man could withthat part of the state, and afterwards commander of stand. He once took occasion, in commenting on a speech of Mr. Sheffey, to say that "the shoemaker our northern army in the war of 1812. ought not to go beyond his last." Quick as the lightning's flash, he replied, "if that gentleman had ever been on the bench, he would never have left it." The Virginia orator never renewed the attack.

Sheffey was now in his long desired situation. Disposing of his tools, he toiled incessantly in his new vocation, and improved rapidly. Here, with his own hand did he lay the basis of his future fame, and resolved to avoid the application to himself of the verse of Gray:

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

Having served for several years in the councils of his country, he withdrew to the practice of his profession at Staunton. A numerous family now reminded him, that intense diligence would be requisite, not only to supply their wants, but to sustain his fame. For a long time he toiled incessantly in the courts of Virginia, and occasionally was engaged in the supreme court of the United States. In December, 1830, he had been attending court, in Nelson county, and started for home in perfect health. He travelled about twelve miles, and stopped at a tavern for the night. Hardly had he taken his seat, when an apoplectic fit numbered him with the dead.

Who supplied his wants during his residence with Mr. Smyth, I have not been able to learn. Soon after his admission to the bar of Wythe county, he was called on to enter the lists with his old friend and patron, whom he handled with so much dexterity and adroitness, that it was generally said among the mass of the community, the apprentice will soon surpass the Thus died an extraordinary man, who by the native master. So it happened. Mr. Sheffey was employed vigor of his intellect, and the force of industry, occupied in all the important causes of that court, and soon ex-a conspicuous station among the patriotic and distintended his practice to several adjoining counties. His guished men of America. There was nothing dignified in the person of Mr. professional brethren, however eminent, admired his powers, and treated him on all occasions with respect Sheffey: he was low of stature; his manners by no means and kindness. In the county and superior courts of polished; all was plain, energetic, original. His pronunlaw and chancery, he was uniformly heard with unaf- ciation was not agreeable: his German accent sounded fected pleasure, both by court and jury. His humble heavy on the ear; yet the most refined audience origin, meager education, and the singular incidents of always paid to him the most profound attention. In his life, awakened the feelings and curiosity of his the argument of his causes, he seized on the strong audience, while they were at once delighted and enlight-points of the law and evidence, and maintained his poened by the efforts of his powerful and original intel-sitions with a courage and zeal which no difficulties lect. After some years, he settled in Staunton, where could subdue. Like Patrick Henry, he was the artificer he soon commanded an extensive and lucrative practice. of his own fortunes, and like him, in after life, lamented He often represented the county of Augusta in the that in his early days the lamp of science had shed but House of Delegates, and in 1811 we find him in Con- a feeble ray over the path along which it was his desgress, busily engaged in the important events of that tiny to travel.

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His mantle fell on ROGER BROOKE TANEY, & favorite son of Maryland, whose fame is identified with the history of America. I design, in the ensuing sketch, to delineate the professional and public character of this amiable and upright citizen, who unites to the various acquirements of a profound jurist all the urbanity of a refined gentleman.

Soon after the usurpation of Cromwell, in 1656, the paterna! and maternal ancestors of Mr. Taney were driven from their native land, because of their adherence to the Catholic church. They sacrificed all the tenderest ties which bound them to their birth place, encountered the dangers of the sea, and the hardships incident to every new settlement in a howling wilderness, to enjoy peace of conscience, and the liberty of worshipping God after the faith of their fathers. Well might these inoffensive people have said to the gloomy tyrant, as their native island gradually disappeared from their view,

"Man's inhumanity to man

Makes countless thousands mourn."

| place to the smile of joy, and happiness shed her divine ray over all classes of society.

The result of this new condition was, that after the revolution, Mr. Taney's father was repeatedly elected to represent his native county in the House of Delegates.

His eldest son, Roger, was born in Calvert county, on the 17th March, 1777.

In the spring of 1792, he became a student at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Nesbitt, a Scotch Pres byterian divine, celebrated for his wit and extensive duated in 1795. I have not been able to ascertain wheacquirements in classical literature. Here he was gra ther during his collegiate course, the first efforts of his intellect glowed with the light of that genius which was so strongly developed in after years; or whether he then manifested that ever-growing ambition in the ac quisition of knowledge, which has placed him among the ablest lawyers of his country.

In the spring of 1796, he commenced the study of law at Annapolis, in the office of Jeremiah T. Chase, then judge of the general court of Maryland, and came to the bar in 1799. Soon after, he began the prac tice in Calvert, and in the fall of this year was elect tant era in the political history of the United States. ed to the House of Delegates. This was an all-impor Great and violent was the struggle between the contending parties: popular feeling was aroused to an unprecedented height, ere the first office in the gift of the nation passed into the hands of Mr. Jefferson. The legislature of Maryland partook of its portion of this excitement, and amid the stormy debates which sometimes occurred, young Taney displayed an intrepidity of character and an uprightness of motive, which gained for him the admiration of his contemporaries. He declined They however submitted to their fate without a mura re-election, and in March, 1801, settled himself in the mur, and settled themselves on the banks of the Pa- practice of law in Frederick. A new scene now opened tuxet. On the accession of Charles the Second to the to his view. He was a stranger in the county where he But the wary and throne of his father, the disabilities of the Catholics was about to commence his career. were greatly mitigated; and even during the brief but reflecting yeomanry of Frederick, Washington, Alleturbulent reign of his brother James, they enjoyed com- ghany, and Montgomery counties, soon discovered that parative repose, when they looked back to their former his industry had no bounds: that he possessed a mind sufferings under the dark and gloomy usurpation of the of the highest order: that judgment, acuteness, peneProtector. Hope once more dawned on the troubled tration, capacious memory, accurate learning, steady bosoms of the Catholics, but it was soon changed into perseverance in the discharge of duty, a lofty integ sorrow and anguish of spirit. For when William and rity, united with a grave and winning elocution, were Mary assumed the reins of government, their former developed. These qualifications were soon rewarded disfranchisements were revived, and they were again with an extensive and lucrative practice. As his powers enduring all the penalties of legislative proscription. were unfolded with experience, they saw that in the arThe ancestors of Mr. Taney felt the tyranny of the gument of important causes, he disentangled what was English monarch even in their secluded retreat in Cal-intricate, confirmed what was doubtful, embellished vert county, where they tilled the soil in peace and charity with all men: they seemed studiously to have In 1806, he is engaged at the court of appeals, enretired from the turmoils of the world, and sought hap- countering some of the most distinguished men of the piness in their own humble dwellings. Such was their state, and the reports of Harris and Johnson show that condition, until the convention of Maryland, in August, he was always well prepared for argument, and was 1776, proclaimed to the world that the bill of rights and deservedly ranked with the most talented of his com the constitution which then came from their hands, petitors. Martin, Harper, Shaofe, and Philip B. Key, should be the sovereign rule of action to the once en- were the monarchs of the bar. But Mr. Taney feared slaved, but now emancipated colonists. To the Catho- no one: relying on his own resources, he never allowed lics it was the bow of promise, betokening the cessation of either the weakness or the power of an adversary to the storm: tyrants no more trampled down their rights: change his purpose or alter his views. Notwithstandall civil disabilities were abolished: the spirit of tolera-ing the unrivalled fame of his opponents, his reputation tion for the first time shed its heavenly influence equally was now in the ascendant. Virgil tells us that his hero over all religious sects: the heaviness of sorrow gave was borne through the regions of the nether realms by

what was dry, and illustrated what was obscure.

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