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The verses are, a few of them, political and antidemocratic in those days; some are patriotic, but they are mostly amatory and bacchanalian; a few are sheer nonsense verses. There is a short series written in 1799 of Consolatory Odes, dedicated with Christian piety to those unfortunate beings who labor under the malignant influence of the Democratic mania. The author of these clever Federal verses was Isaac Story, who was born at Marblehead (the son of the clergyman of the same name at that place), August 25, 1774. He was a graduate of Harvard of 1793, and became a lawyer at Rutland, Massachusetts. In 1792 he published at Marblehead An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle, together with their characters, as related in the Spectator. This college production is in verse, in this pathetic appeal :

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From the sad place where sorrow ever reigns
And hopeless wretches groan beneath their chains;
Where stern oppression lifts her iron hand
And restless cruelty usurps command, &c.

In 1800 he delivered a eulogy on Washington at Sterling, Massachusetts, where he was then a resident. The next year he appears as a Fourth of July orator at Worcester. His oration was published. He died at the early age of twenty-nine, while on a visit to his father at Marblehead, July 19, 1803. The following obituary from the pen of his cousin, Judge Joseph Story, appeared in the Salem Register of July 25.

"At Marblehead, on Tuesday evening last, Isaac Story, Jr., Esq., of Rutland. A gentleman well known by numerous productions in polite literature. In his manners bland, social, and affectionate; in his disposition sportive and convivial; in his morals pure, generous, and unaffected; in his mind vivacious, refined, and facetious. After the usual academic course he pursued the science of Jurisprudence, and gave promise of an honorable station among advocates. In the interval of judicial studies he courted the Aonian Sisters, and occasionally gave to the public specimens of accomplished composition. Wit and humor were provinces in which he sought peculiar favor; though he not unfrequently mingled in his poetic effusions the gravity of sententiousness with the lighter graces. But, alas! the wit, the poet, and the moralist, now exists only in his writings. Death has consigned him to the common lot of mortality.

"Spirit of him whose chastened soul
Could touch each chord of desire,
pure
Whence, flown beyond the mind's control,
Thy brilliant thought, thy Druid fire?

"Lost in thy manhood's chariest bloom,

O'er thee shall pity meekly mourn,
And many a sylph, who haunts the gloom,
With twilight dews besprend thine urn.
"Beside, thine airy harp' shall rest,

With wonted charms unskilled to play,
Or wildly moved in grief supprest,
Fling to the breeze its funeral lay.

"Yet may the willow love to bend,

And there the gentler myrtle woo, While softly sighs each passing friend, Ah! Yorick, bard of truth, adieu!"

ODE TO POVERTY.

Peter holdeth confab with Poverty-giveth her his opinion; asketh questions about Charity--and endeth with a little anger and inconsistency-but still canters in church-measure. Come, Poverty, with placid hue, With ragged garments, worn-out shoe; Come, hear the jovial Peter!

Thy squalid looks and haggard mien,
Protub'rant bones and eyes scarce seen,
Now swell his solemn metre.
When on he travell'd life's green vale,
Where fickle fancy fan'd his sail,

He thought he ne'er should sorrow;
But that old Time would constant bring,
From joy's gay source a plenteous spring,
For ev'ry coming morrow.

Thus buoy'd by hope, he turn'd his lyre;
Enjoy'd his friends, indulg'd desire,

And laugh'd at lengthen'd faces;
Pity'd the plodding man of trade;
The skin-flint miser, moping maid,

And all, who shun'd the Graces.
With careless foot he trip'd the green;
Each day, each hour, chang'd pleasure's scene,
Nor thought, poor soul, on thee.
Nature has given us plenteous stock,
To keep us from thy stumbling block,
And fill our hearts with glee.

In vain you steal our bags of riches,
Thread-bare our elbows, tear our breeches,

Or leave our feet unshod.

With health and virtue on we trudge,
Knowing that all thy tricks are fudge,
While there exists a God.

Thus thought he, in his youthful days,
And still those thoughts shall swell his lays,
And keep his bosom quiet;
For tho' thou com'st, with visage pale,
And drag'st him, tatter'd into jail,

His soul shall breed no riot.

Along life's twisting road we find
Of halt and maim'd, of mad and blind,
Of doleful and of dumb,

A train, both hideous, sad, and poor,
Seeking each day compassion's door,

While going to kingdom come.
O'er those Compassion sheds a tear,
While pity stops their plaints to hear,
And cures, or mourns their fate;
Yet when we see thee those infest,
Who are with strength and reason blest,
Our minds are fill'd with hate.

Not one decree of Heaven we blame,
But on them cry out "fools! for shame,
Betake thee unto labour."

Unless by dire misfortune spent,
They are in Law's vile dungeon pent,
To gratify a neighbour.

Then anger and compassion blend,

We damn the wretch, act sorrow's friend
But like thee ne'er the more;
Rather abominate thy form,
And, as we would fell Winter's storm,
Against thee shut the door.

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PETEE'S ADIEU TO THE CITY.

Beatus ille, qui procul negotiis,
Ut prisca gens mortalium,
Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,
Solutus omni fænore.—HORACE.

To the City I've bid an adieu!
To its pleasures and parties farewell!
Nor can they entrap me anew;

Or call me once more from my cell.

I believ'd midst the rich and the great,
Mild contentment and happiness dwelt;
That they blunted the arrows of fate,
And seldom keen misery felt.

That Time flew with pinions of down,
While Charity brighten'd his way;
And Peace, on her olive branch crown,
Recorded the deeds of each day.
That Justice, with mercy attir'd,

Heard the cause of the poor and oppress'd; Check'd the tongue with malevolence fir'd, And the wrongs of the feeble redress'd.

The delusion is over and past,

And the tinsel, which misery clad,
Is remov'd by my reason at last,

And I mourn that the world is so bad.
That anguish and want should appear,
With gaiety's mantle adorn'd;
That I language of softness should hear,

From a wretch, whom humanity scorn'd.
That damsels with modest array,

And manners apparently good, Should trip through the city all day,

But at night, with fell infamy brood.

The rich meet the rich in the street,

And tho' vices hang thick round their heart,
Shake hands and most courteously greet-
But with plots and contrivances part.

No hand wipes a tear from the eye
Of the widow, or fatherless child;

But all their assistance deny

And laugh to behold them beguil❜d. The good man, by poverty led,

Thro' the city must wander alone; With the offals of grandeur be fed,

And to wretchedness open his moan.
The worldlings have virtue forsook;

To self are their bounties confin'd;
While those, who take pride in a crook,
Are patrons and friends to mankind.
O! nature, thy works I adore;

The path, thou'st design'd us to tread,
Is stock'd with the richest of love,
With the fairest of roses bespread.
Our wants are both simple and few,
Where virtue and modesty reign;
But the phantoms of bliss we pursue,

And the counsels of wisdom disdain.

Let me wander my cottage around,

Taste the fruits of labour and care; With health, peace, and friendship abound, And I shall not of pleasure despair. P. QUINCE.

LEONARD WOODS.

THIS distinguished scholar and divine was born at Princeton, Mass., June 19, 1774. His parents, Samuel and Abigail Woods, are spoken of as both possessing strong mental powers, while they were

of "Puritanic piety;" his father's "habits of serious thought upon metaphysical subjects having obtained for him the title of "philosopher Woods." With small opportunity for cultivation when young, he became conversant with the most important histories, with the poetry of Milton, Young, and Watts; as also with the works of Locke and Edwards, and of many of the Puritan divines.* His son Leonard early exhibited a taste for study, profiting by the instructions of his father and an elder sister. At six or seven he followed the exercises of a class of older boys in arithmetic, keeping pace with them on his substitute for a slate, of a piece of birch bark; notwithstanding these signs of talent he might have been confined to the duties of his father's farm, had not a fit of sickness, which abated his strength, marked him out for the physically less laborious occupations of the scholar. His mother assisted this scheme of study, which he pursued with the village clergyman; and in 1792 he entered Harvard, taking his degree in course in the class with John Pickering, with the highest honors in 1796. He then was engaged as a teacher in Medford for eight months, when he commenced the study of theology with Dr. Charles Backus at Somers, Ct., continuing his studies at home with the Bible and Brown's system of divinity for his principal text-books. In 1798, he was ordained at Newbury as the successor of Dr. David Tappan, who had been appointed professor of Theology at Harvard. He married the next year Miss Abigail Wheeler, daughter of Joseph Wheeler, judge of probate in Worcester. His public literary reputation dates from the year 1805, when he contributed a series of papers to the religious periodical, The Panoplist, conducted by Dr. Morse of Charlestown, in defence of the old orthodox Calvinism, which was then powerfully assailed by the advocates of the new opinions in vogue at Cambridge, and elsewhere. A scheme for an educational institution "to provide for the church a learned, orthodox, and pious ministry" now developed itself, which resulted in the opening of the Andover Theological Seminary, September 28, 1808, with Mr. Woods in the chair of Christian Theology-a professorship which he occupied for thirty-eight years, when he resigned the office in 1846, retaining the rank of Emeritus professor. He published his lectures, embracing his system of systematic theology, and a portion of his miscellaneous writings, in a series of his "Works" in five volumes, in 1849 and '50. The first three volumes contain one hundred and twenty-eight of the Andover courses of lectures; the other two contain letters, essays, and sermons, including the controversial letters to Unitarians, an Examination of the Doctrine of Perfection, a Dissertation on Miracles, a Course of Study, Letters to Young Ministers, and Essays on the "Philosophy of the Mind," "Cause and Effect in Connexion with Fatalism

* A Discourse (of the biographical portion of which the present account is an abstract) delivered at the Funeral of Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D., in the Chapel of the Theological Seminary, Andover, Aug. 28, 1854. By Edward A. Lawrence, Professor in the Theological Seminary. East Windsor Hill, Ct.

+ No. 1. of the Panoplist or the Christian's Armory, was published June, 1865; with vol. xiv. in Jan. 1818. it became united with the Missionary Herald; in January 1821, lost its miscellaneous character, and the publication has since been well known as the Missionary Herald, the organ of the American Board.

and Free Agency," and other metaphysical religious topics.

His habit of mind in these theological writings is thus described by his son-in-law, Professor Lawrence, who has sketched his moral and intellectual character with a discriminating pen. "He was never weary of an old truth because of its age, nor repelled from a new one because it was new. He believed in improvements in theologians and theological science, though not in theological truths. He regarded these improvements as coming through much study and prayer, by approximations of human ideas and human hearts to the revealed standard of doctrine, and the model of the Christian life. He accepted certain views of progress; but his cautious habit led him to take no step until he was sure that it was not a backward movement. Much that the world esteems progress, he counted the reverse. If his caution made him conservative, his abhorrence of evil made him also a friend to all judicions reforms. He moved slowly because he moved with care, and with care that he might move securely and lose no time. If he seldom had occasion to retract his opinions, it was from the patient labor and caution with which he formed them."*

His social disposition, kind and refined, was not less marked than his zealous adherence to the advancement of theological education. Dr. Woods continued to reside at Andover till his death, which he met with Christian faith and humility, Aug. 24, 1854, at the advanced age of eighty-one. Dr. Woods was one of the original promoters of several of the benevolent associations of his day, as the American Board of Missions, the American Tract Society, and the Temperance Society, with the history of which his name will be commemorated. One of the last works upon which he was engaged was a History of the Theological Seminary in Andover, which he left nearly completed in manuscript.

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WILLIAM SULLIVAN.

WAS born at Saco, in Maine, November 12, 1774. His father had been Governor of Massachusetts, his grandfather was an emigrant from Ireland. He was educated at Harvard, and studied law in his father's office. The law and politics occupied his attention till the latter part of his life, when he devoted himself to literature, and matters of public welfare. His writings are several discourses, one before the Suffolk bar in 1824; before the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth in 1829; before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance in 1832; his Political Class Book; intended to instruct the higher classes in schools, in the origin, nature, and use of Political Power, in 1831; his Moral Class Book, or the Law of Morals, derived from the created universe, and from revealed religion, in 1833; an Historical Class Book the same year, and its continuation entitled Historical Causes and Effects, in 1837. In this year he also published his book entitled, Sea Life; or what may, or may not be done, and what ought to be done by Shipowners, Shipmasters, Mates, and Seamen, addressed to Father Taylor,

the minister of the Mariner's Church in Boston.

Discourse, p. 22.

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These were either books for schools, or special philanthropic topics; the work of most general interest which he wrote, is his Familiar Letters on the Public Men of the Revolution, including events from the peace of 1783 to the peace of 1815, which first appeared in 1834. It is a vindication of the Federal Party, and an attack on the opposition, inspired by the animadversions of Jefferson in his published memoir and writings, mingled with personal sketches and criticisms. He died September 3, 1839, aged sixty-four. Mr. Sullivan's life has been written by his son, John T. S. Sullivan. He speaks of the ardor with which his father pursued his studies in his last years, occupying himself from twelve to fourteen hours daily, and of his saying to a friend who regretted that he had relinquished the law: "I believe I mistook, in my selection of a profession, the course most favorable to my happiness; for I have never been conscious of real enjoyment, or of the true bent of my talents, if I have any, until I devoted myself to literature;" a remarkable tribute to a life of letters. Another anecdote of his personal bearing is also given by his son. "He was six feet tall, very erect, and in his gait dignified and reserved. No one, saving his own family, ever approached him familiarly. manners were those of the old school, now almost extinct, and he could more deeply wound with a formal bow, than many men, less dignified, civility, based upon self-respect, was a gentlewith a blow. He used to say, that dignified man's weapon and defence.'

SKETCH OF HAMILTON-FROM THE "FAMILIAR LETTERS."

His

In 1795, Alexander Hamilton, at the age of thirtyeight, resumed the practice of law in the city of New York, and there continued until the close of his life. In December of that year, his personal appearance was this:-He was under middle size, thin in person, but remarkably erect and dignified in his deportment. His bust, seen in so many houses, and the pictures and prints of him, make known, too gene

Prefixed to a new, enlarged, and revised edition of the Public Men of the Revolution. Phila. 1847.

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rally, the figure of his face, to make an attempt at description expedient. His hair was turned back from his forehead, powdered, and collected in a club behind. His complexion was exceedingly fair, and varying from this only by the almost feminine rosiness of his cheeks. His might be considered, as to figure and color, an uncommonly handsome face. When at rest, it had rather a severe and thoughtful expression; but when engaged in conversation, it easily assumed an attractive smile. He was expected, one day in December, 1795, at dinner, and was the last who came. When he entered the room it was apparent from the respectful attention of the company, that he was a distinguished individual. He was dressed in a blue coat with bright buttons, the skirts of his coat were unusually long. He wore a white waistcoat, black silk small clothes, white silk stockings. The gentleman who received him as a guest, introduced him to such of the company as were strangers to him; to each he made a formal bow, bending very low, the ceremony of shaking hands not being observed. The fame of Hamilton had reached every one who knew any thing of public men. His appearance and deportment accorded with the dignified distinction to which he had attained in public opinion. At dinner, whenever he engaged in the conversation, every one listened attentively. His mode of speaking was deliberate and serious; and his voice engagingly pleasant. In the evening of the same day he was in a mixed assembly of both sexes; and the tranquil reserve, noticed at the dinner table, had given place to a social and playful manner, as though in this he was alone ambitious to excel.

The eloquence of Hamilton was said to be persuasive and commanding; the more likely to be so, as he had no guide but the impulse of a great and rich mind, he having had little opportunity to be trained at the bar, or in popular assemblies. Those who could speak of his manner from the best opportunities to observe him in public and private, concurred in pronouncing him a frank, amiable, high-minded, open-hearted gentleman. He was capable of inspiring the most affectionate attachment; but he could make those whom he opposed, fear and hate him cordially. He was capable of intense and effectual application, as is abundantly proved by his public labours. But he had a rapidity and clearness of perception, in which he may not have been equalled. One who knew his habits of study, said of him, that when he had a serious object to accomplish, his practice was to reflect on it previously; and when he had gone through this labour, he retired to sleep, without regard to the hour of the night, and having slept six or seven hours, he rose, and having taken strong coffee, seated himself at his table, where he would remain six, seven, or eight hours; and the product of his rapid pen required little correction for the press. He was among the few alike excellent, whether in speaking c in writing. In private and friendly intercourse, he is said to have been exceedingly amiable, and to have been affectionately beloved.

ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER.

ROBERT GOODLOE HARPER, an eminent political writer and orator of the Federalist school, was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1765. He was the son of poor but respectable parents, who, during his childhood, removed to Granville, North Carolina. At the early age of fifteen he served in a troop of horse, composed of the youth of the neighborhood, under General Greene during the closing scenes of the southern campaign of the

Revolution. He next entered Princeton College where, while a student in the upper, he acted as a tutor to the lower classes, and was graduated in 1785. He about the same time formed a plan, during a visit at Philadelphia, of making the tour of Europe on foot. He proposed to commence at London, supporting himself during his sojourn by giving lessons and working as a joiner, a trade for which an early taste for mechanics had fitted him. The scheme was frustrated by the departure of the ship, in which he intended to sail, having been delayed for several weeks by ice in the Delaware, during which his stock of money and desire for travel rapidly diminished. As soon as navigation was open he sailed for Charleston with the intention of studying law. While standing on the wharf after his arrival, with only a dollar or two in his pocket, he was asked by a bystander whether he had not taught a class in Princeton of which a youth, whose name was given, was a member. He replied in the affirmative, and was informed that this youth was the son of his questioner, who had become familiar with the teacher from the letters of the scholar, his son. By the kindly offices of this friend, who was the keeper of a tavern, the wants of the new comer were provided for; and by an introduction to a lawyer, who received him as a student in his office, his wishes in reference to a profession realized. He read with such zeal as to qualify himself for practice in a year. With a view to speedier advancement in his profession he removed to the interior of the state. Here he soon became known by a series of articles which he contributed to a newspaper on a proposed change in the constitution of the state. He was next elected to the legislature of the state, and not long after to the national House of Representatives, where he became a distinguished and thorough supporter of the administrations of Washington and Adams. After the election of Jefferson he retired from Congress, and in consequence of his marriage with the daughter of Charles Carroll, removed to Maryland and commenced the practice of the law at Baltimore. He was employed with Joseph Hopkinson as counsel for Judge Chase of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the trial which resulted in the acquittal of that officer on all the charges for which he was impeached. He was elected by his adopted state to the Senate of the United States. At a dinner given at Georgetown, June 5, 1813, in honor of the recent Russian victories, he gave as a toast Alexander the Deliverer," and followed with a speech highly eulogistic of that monarch, and of the power, prosperity, and progress of his dominions. The address contains an elaborate account of the invasion of Napoleon, attributes its failure to the military skill of the Russians as well as the severity of the winter, and congratulates the United States on this result as lessening the preponderating power of France and frustrating the designs which he charges her with, of attempting the conquest of Canada from the English. On the publication of this production Robert Walsh addressed the author a letter in which, after complimenting him as the originator of the phrase of "Alexander the Deliverer," the opinion is expressed that the oration underrates the military character of Napoleon, eulogizes the Russians unduly, and does not perceive the dan

gers of Russian ascendency. Harper made an elaborate reply, and Walsh responded with a second letter, after which the speech with the correspondence was published in a volume.

Towards the close of his life IIarper became an active member of the American Colonization Society, a scheme in which he took a deep interest, not only on national grounds but from his fondness for the study of the geography of Africa. A long and valuable letter from his pen on the subject appeared in the first Report of the Association in 1818. On the fifteenth of January, 1825, while reading his newspaper after breakfast, he fell, was caught in the arms of his son, and a few minutes after died of a disease of the heart.

He published at various periods a number of speeches and addresses on the politics of the day. His Select Works, consisting of Speeches on Political and Forensic Subjects, with the Answer drawn up by him to the articles of impeachment against Judge Chase and sundry political tracts, collated from the original publications and carefully revised, vol. i., appeared in Baltimore in 1814. It opens with an Address to his constituents, dated December 17, 1795, on the Treaty of November, 1794, in which he gives his reasons for advocating the measure, and pays an eloquent tribute to John Jay.

his own state, to which he could be raised only by the approbation of his fellow-citizens at large; would he ensure their disapprobation by betraying their dearest interests? He was opposed by a numerous and powerful party, by a popular and respectable competitor; would he furnish this opposition with irresistible arms against himself, by an act which must have drawn on him the public execration? He is said to be a candidate for the highest trust his country can bestow, a candidate in opposition to men distinguished throughout Europe as well as America, for their talents and their virtues; would he for ever blast whatever prospects he may have, by agreeing to "admit another government to control the legislative functions of his country?" No, fellowcitizens! The stations which Mr. Jay has filled, the long period for which he has enjoyed a spotless repu tation and possessed the confidence of his country, argue at least a common portion of talents and inte grity; and a man must be depraved and foolish to an unusual degree, who, situated as Mr. Jay was, could consent to so atrocious an act as the treaty is represented: could consent to "degrade the national honour, endanger the political existence, and destroy the agricultural, manufacturing, commercial, and shipping interests" of his country: foolish if he could consent to it without seeing its tendency, and both foolish and depraved if he saw it and yet consented.

But, fellow-citizens, let me ask you, and let me appeal to your calm dispassionate judgment for an answer, let me ask you, can these frightful events, these destructive consequences be justly apprehended from a treaty, the whole commercial part of which is to expire at the end of twelve years, and may be terminated by ourselves within two years after the close of the present war? Can any possible operation of a treaty, admitting it to be a disadvantageous, an unwise one, so soon destroy, so speedily ruin, or even in so short a period materially injure the agri-rating culture, the manufactures, the commerce of America, which during the present universal shock in Europe, and under the depredations of all parties, have flourished and increased beyond all former example? I confess I cannot conceive it.

Let me further ask you, fellow-citizens, what reasons there are to believe that Mr. Jay would conclude, Major Pinckney approve, two thirds of the Senate sanction, and the President finally ratify a treaty, "degrading to the national honour, and dangerous to the political existence of the United States;" a treaty containing "a prostitution of their sovereignty, and a wanton sacrifice of their rights;" a treaty which "admits another government to control the legislative functions of the Union," "prostitutes the dearest rights of freemen, and lays them prostrate at the feet of royalty?"

Mr. Jay had a reputation to support, a reputation gained by a long and active public life; would he blast it at once? He has a family growing up around him; would he throw a gloom over all their opening prospects, and nip the bud of their prosperity, by an act which must involve himself and them in one common disgrace? He held a distinguished office, from which the voice of his country might remove him; would he raise the voice of that country against him, by "prostituting its sovereignty, and making a wanton sacrifice of its rights?" At the time when he agreed to this treaty, at the time when he dispatched it to the United States, at the time when without unforeseen and accidental delays it must have arrived and been made public, at that time he was a candidate for an high office in

We have next Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France, addressed to his constituents and published in 1797; followed by a speech on the necessity of resisting the aggressions and encroachments of France on the Constitutional powers of the President and Senate in the appointment of foreign ministers; an argument in the case of William Blount's Impeachment on the question whether a Senator of the United States be liable to impeachment, delivered January 5, 1799; a letter dated March 5, 1800, enumethe services of the Federal party to the United States; a speech in favor of a bill to prevent "unauthorized correspondence with any foreign government, with intent to influence its conduct towards the United States, or to defeat the measures of our own government," in which he comments with severity on Mr. Gallatin. The volume closes with a speech in favor of the continuance of the Sedition Law, delivered January 1, 1801, in which he advocates his views with eloquence.

We are called on, sir, for the reasons why this act should now be continued. I will give my reasons most freely. Whether they be the same with those which actuate the conduct of other gentlemen, I know not, but in my mind they deserve all consideration. I wish to revive this law, sir, as a shield for the liberty of the press, and the freedom of opinion; as a protection to myself, and those with whom I have the happiness and the honor to think on public affairs, should we at any future time be compelled by the imbecility or the mistakes of any future administration in this country, to commence an opposition against it: not a factious, profligate, and unprincipled opposition, founded on falsehood and misrepresentation, and catching at the passions and the prejudices of the moment; but a manly, dignified, candid, and patriotic opposition, addressed to the good sense and virtue of the nation, and resting on the basis of argument and truth. Should that time ever arrive, as it may arrive, though I earnestly pray that it may not, I wish to have this law, which allows the truth to be given in evidence on indict

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