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This severe rebuke, and the attendant circumstances, repealed 'Lynch's Law' in that part of the country. The immense throng who witnessed the trials, and the far greater numbers who heard of the facts, seemed to perceive, as if written with sun beams, the liability of that dreadful code to insufferable abuse. Its origin, growth, and natural consummation, were obvious to every startled mind: all saw, and wondered they had not seen before, that if allowed in any case, however apparently flagrant, it would at length be used where nothing but weakness was on one side, and bad passions on the other.

It was near the time of my retirement from the Bar, before any renewal of such violences met my knowledge. They then began, very much as before: they have multiplied by like degrees: and no doubt they will grow more frequent and more atrocious, until either the Legislature and the courts do their duty, or till some deed, too high-handed and shocking to be winked at, shall once more rouse a feeling, which may again suspend (not abolish) the perpetually reviving mischief. The efforts of counsel, supported by facts more eloquent than any tongue, may cure for a time, and through a certain district: but it is the LawGIVER, alone, who can eradicate the disease, utterly and forever, from the whole body politic. Let HIM, (as my early adviser, the sagacious farmer, said) enact more effective penalties for transgression, and provide better means of enforcing them: have juries more sober, intelligent, and respectable: so constitute the inferior tribunals, that they may know and perform their duties better: and (I add), as a measure of prevention perhaps equal to all other measures,--send the schoolmaster more widely and thoroughly abroad among the people; so that ONE FOURTH of them may no longer be qualified by ignorance to be nothing but brutes and law-breakers.

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JAMES MCDOWELL, ESQ.

OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA. We have been favored by the publisher, John Bogart, Esq. of Princeton, with a copy of the "Address delivered before the Alumni Association of the college of New-Jersey, Sept. 26, 1838," by the distinguished individual whose name is prefixed to these lines. Mr. McDowell is well known in Virginia, as a gentleman of literary attainments and an eloquent speaker; and the address before us will not have the effect of diminishing his high reputation. It is true, that we do not consider his style in composition as perfect, or altogether a safe model for imitation by younger men; but its very faults are occasioned by the exuberance of his genius and the splendor of his imagination. If some might complain of the superabundant foliage which is spread before us, none could be dissatisfied with the rich and precious fruit which always accompanies it.

We regret, that our limits will not permit us to present a critical analysis of the address, or to make copious selections from its pages. It is not easy to commend particular passages, where there is so much equality of beauty throughout, and so rapid a succession of brilliant thoughts and wholesome precepts, clothed in eloquent language. We cannot forbear extracting, however, the following forcible and beautiful appeal to those of his hearers, who were about to receive the "spur and belt of college knighthood," and to go forth upon the labors of life:

closes your connection with the college, and which accredits "To you who have just received the ceremonial seal, which you with honorable testimony to the world, this hour, glad as it is in the exulting sense of independence which it inspires, is the beginning one of more anxious and solemn consequence than any other that has opened upon you. It is an hour which advances you to undertakings and duties which, whether considered in reference to mind or character, outmeasure by far, in complication and importance, any other to which you have yet been called. The gown, with all the responsibilities and obligations of manhood, is taken to day. The rubicon of youth is passed, and is now behind you: the battle of life stands ready before. The quiet harbor, where you have been ministered to for years in gentleness and peace, is now quit, and you are launched upon the wave of the wide sea, where your pilotage and success must be such as heaven and your own good heart shall supply. At this moment, which is always one of rejoicing, follow what may, when the restraints of impatient pupilage are taken away, and the heart leaps forward to busy life as to a revel and a feast; at this moment, to read you over the lessons of a grey and care-worn experience is, in some sort you may think, to exhibit anew the mystic hands and the mystic words upon the wall, the skeleton finger and the boding motto, calling up only images of gloom unseasonably to dim the ruby of your cup, unkindly to check the joy of your banquet. Rather imagine that as you are no Belshazzars to tremble at prophetic revealings, and I no sage or seer to announce them, that some words not of gloom, but of soberness and truth, may even now be spoken which may benefit and aid you when this festal hour shall have gone. So presuming, let it be said, that if you would acquire firmness, elevation and weight of character at the very outset in life, if you would impart to the mind the whole of that consistency and vigor of which it is susceptible, and would crown all these virtues by reputation and by profit, then choose at once the profession or pursuit to which you intend to be attached, and embody all your energies in preparation for it. Choose candidly, upon thorough examination of yourself, but choose promptly. Decline to do so, loiter away a year or two of the most precious period of your lives in the vain and voluntary self-delusion that you are wisely exercising your judgment with observation and reading and facts, that you may decide at

last with the better discretion; do this, as thousands have done | peculiar interests and structure of southern population, yet, in to their sorrow, and not only will the tone and courage of your mind abate, and all of its faculties gradually give way under the abandonment of its accustomed discipline, but innumerable conjectures of hypothetical evil will fill it, and visionary reasons for further and further delay will spring up in afflicting abundance on every side of you, to postpone and perplex your decision. Every moment not imperatively demanded by the necessities of self-examination and an intelligent survey of the general operations of society, every one beyond this, which is spent under the deceptive pretence of deliberation and inquiry, only aggravates your perplexity and distress, and will ultimately fasten upon your mind the distempered and incurable habit of halting and indecision. You may search and search and be no more profited withal, than the inquiring and eccentric hermit who roamed through the world, looking in all its paths with a candle in his hand for an honest man, but retired at last, wearied, disappointed and disheartened to his cell, where, as the fable reads, he renounced his hopes, extinguished his torch, and died in despair. Let all waywardness and caprice be dismissed from your choice, and your plan of life be definitely settled, and it is amazing to see how instantaneous is that firmness and energy which result to the mind from this single act of concentrating its purposes and powers. But delay and delay, and as no system of life is adopted, or adopted in time, your self-control, your sense of personal value, your efficiency and your promptitude of decision are all lost your struggles to live, to act, to play your part in society as might become you, insensibly but inevitably dwindle down into a petty and contemptible shuffle of daily expedients; and repentance, mortification, disappointment, to say nothing of positive and resulting vices, oftentimes follow after to bring up in mournful array the procession of life."

its final issues, interweaves itself indissolubly with the peace and the hopes and the destinies of us all. If it is ever important to consider it with admonitory reference to its inevitable and its dread results, it is at this moment, above all others the most important, whilst the public mind is ruminating upon it, and before any violent or any irrevocable act has thrust it out from the forum of reason, to be discussed and decided upon the field of battle. It is now, if ever, when a threatening frown scowls and lowers upon its front, that evidence should be heard, lest an unwary judgment should let loose the sword to "slay the man that is thy fellow." Who here that asks--who here that needs to be told, that abolition is the subject meant; that subject of mon. ster omen, though perchance of pious birth-which fostered and forwarded with a wild and explosive energy, has been made to tower above every interest of party, and above every measure of policy, by putting into contest the very body and being of the state. Passing by the questions of theology and morals and constitutional power and private right which have been embodied with this subject, I have this only to say which my southern position, and, therefore, my keener apprehension, both as witness and victim of all its results, will enable me to say-that if it be pushed onward by those who are locally foreign to its interests and its dangers, until it becomes the efficient and admitted cause of some insurgent ebullition, it will be the parent, not only of unutterable calamities to us, but of certain, irretrievable and bloody undoing to themselves and to all. Let those amongst you who choose, bewail the existence of slavery as a maelstrom in the bosom of southern society; if they but touch it with prag. matical, with forbidden and infatuated hand, they render it a maelstrom to engulph the Union. Be adjured, therefore, by the weal of this and of coming ages; by our own and our childrens' good--by all that we have and all that we hope for in the glories of our land, to leave this subject of slavery, with every accountability it may impose, every remedy it may require, every accumulation of difficulty or of pressure it may reach-leave it all to the interest and the wisdom and the conscience of those upon whom the providence of God and the constitution of your counbefore stop is impossible, the furious headway of that destructive and mad philanthropy which is lighting up for the nation itself the fires of the stake: which is rushing on, stride after stride, to a strife and a woe that may bury us all under a harder and wickeder slavery than any it would extinguish. Nothing bat bitterness--nothing but aggravation of heart and of lot has been brought upon that unfortunate man whom rash and pernicious attempts--the promptings of this blinded and baleful spirit--have been put forth to benefit. They have broken down the footing he had reached, crushed the sympathies he had won, embarrassed and accursed the fortunes they were interposed to control. The generous and elevating influence of our free institutions was relaxing his bondage, bettering his condition, lifting up his character, turning upon him the public anxieties and the public councils as a great object of provident and public provision--was changing at all points the aspects of his fate, when a spirit, sent of heaven as it insanely imagined, came from abroad, to scourge him with demon visitation; to wrench him from the arms of his only true and only capable benefactors--to throw him back again upon the earth a thousand fold more suspected and more separated than before; rivetting upon him every fetter it would loosen--poisoning every blessing it would bestow, and filling his whole case with elements of hopelessness, explosion and evil, which the heart sorrows whilst it shudders to think upon. Why, then, persist? Why abet the growth or the daring or the power of a spirit, which wisdom and mercy

Indeed, the whole of that part of the address which is intended for the Alumni, when they shall have engaged in the active duties of social, professional and political life, abounds so much in fervid morality and glowing patriotism—that we could sincerely wish it in the hands of every intelligent reader in the country. The follow-try have cast it. Leave it to them now and forever, and stop, ing passage particularly ought to be read by every politician of every party in the Union, and is of more value as coming from a gentleman known to be a warm admirer and supporter of the last and present administrations of the federal government. As we are not politicians ourselves, we leave the application to others: "Public offices are trusts, pure trusts; conferred in faith for the general weal, and opposed throughout the whole range of their intendments, to all the purposes of individual advantage. To pursue them, therefore, as being in any respect whatsoever the proper subjects of traffic or private emolument-to clutch at and seize upon and apply them as the just acquisition of personal booty, is in reality to perpetrate a robbery; a robbery more wicked and worse than that which classic fable has punished with the naked rock and the gnawing vulture; nay, it is to commit simony against the state, only less criminal and less accursed in itself than that simony against heaven, which would have purchased its gifts and its powers to dishonor, defile and destroy them."

The concluding remarks of the address we cannot omit. They relate to that gloomy subject which we never approach without shuddering. If such appeals are lost upon those misguided spirits who, in the name of peace, are lighting up the fires of discord, and would, for the sake of religion, plunge society into crime and darkness, we shall despair ever reaching them through the influence of reason, and must calmly await that hour of trial which an overruling Providence may have

in reserve for our country:

"I shall be pardoned, I trust, by this audience, already taxed too long, for introducing, in connection with this view of a patriot's duty, and as an appropriate appendage to it, a closing remark upon an all-engrossing and all-pervading subject, which deeply, intensely, and sternly involves it-a subject which, though it takes hold more immediately and more totally of the

plead to you, with all their tongues, to silence and to stop? Will any daughter in this assembly, the cherished and defended of a parent's love; blessed to the uttermost with the holy peace of perfect security; sheltered to the uttermost from the apprehension and the approach of every wrong; with no enemy to dread, no hand to injure, no terror to affright; safe in her repose,

safe in her innocence at every hour and in every place; will she do that, which, all-valueless for its objects, will yet be all-powerful to send wakefulness and watching and danger and anguish, perchance, to the days and the nights; to the summer shade as well as to the barred and bolted chamber of her southern sister? Will any mother here, as she soothes her infant to its rest, and looks upon its balmy sleep, and pressing it to her heart, bows in gratitude to God for his mercies to her child, thanking him that

perish she must, only upon a common field thus testifying, through all time, to a fidelity which there was nothing in life that could shock, and nothing in death that could destroy. Turning her eye and her heart upon no other banner than the proud one which floats from the capitol of the republic, she prays as she looks upon it with its "stars and stripes," that the glad shout which centuries hence may hail it in the land of the pilgrims, may be echoed back from the waves of the Pacific seas. Heaven grant that generations and ages hence, some future son of the south, honored and welcomed and greeted as I have been today, may stand upon this consecrated spot, praising and thanking God, as I do, that he also can say, "these are my brethren, and this, this too is my country."

its life is safe, safe from harm, from the hand of violence and re- | in arm to share with you in a common glory, and perish, when venge, and that all its slumbers are guarded by a nation's power: will she--oh, can she, as the consequence of her acts, bear to behold the southern mother startling and shuddering, at every foot fall, and at every noise which breaks upon the silence of the night, and flying from her pillow of wakefulness and wretchedness to kneel and crouch upon the cradle, weeping and sobbing in the agony of her soul over the murder and the horror that surround it? Will the father and the citizen hail us and greet us and press us to their bosom, as better brethren and better men, when we shall come up with our hands all red and reeking with the blood they have made us shed? But if not, then abjure the cause which involves the crime, and the disciples who support it! Friends of the slave! they are stripping him of the wretched remnant of liberty he has left. Friends of humanity! they are cruelly and recklessly staking it upon means of massacre and convulsion. Friends of the country! they are rapidly becoming its iron homicides--cleaving down its institutions with murderous hand, and tearing it limb from limb. If you would see the practical working of the spirit that is spoken of--the woe and the ruin it can occasion-go to the quiet and the passive slave of the south, pour your insurrectionary sentiments into his car, parade the worst of his condition in artful and in pictured horror before his eye, then trace the progress of the poison-trace it through his murmurs, his resentment, his resistance; his passions grow. ing deeper and darker at every step, under the discipline he pro. vokes, until anger and ulceration and agony of spirit have done

their work, and revenge and murder have become the compa. nions of his bosom: then see him leagued and banded with others as fell and as furious as himself, the vulture at his heart,

the dagger and the torch in his hand, stealing into the silent and

midnight chamber, and standing, with horrid and uplifted wea-
pon, over the parent and the child as they slumber for the blow:
see him-let the shriek, the gasping struggle, the gory blade,
the blazing dwelling, tell out the deed that is done. For one
moment-one palsied moment-a shivering and convulsive hor-
ror seizes upon the hearts of millions of our people--in the next,
a dreadful wrath drives on to a dreadful retribution. But if the
blood of our people is ever thus to stream in our dwellings, and
ooze from the very bosom of the soil that feeds us, it will cry
from the ground like that of Abel for vengeance, vengeance
against the brother hand that shed it, and vengeance would be
had, though every drop that was left should be poured out in one
anguished and dying effort to obtain it. Nothing--no nothing
but heaven could prevent a people, so lashed up to frenzy by
rage and suffering and wrong, from pouring back, upon the
fields and firesides of the guilty, that visitation of calamity and
death which had been sent to desolate their own. Spare us--oh,
spare us the curse of a ruptured brotherhood, of a ruined, ruined
country. Give up your happy and united country; give it up to
the madness of some factious hour, to the frenzy of some fanatic
spirit; let it sink overwhelmed in some horrible struggle of
brother with brother, and you will recover its liberties and its
blessings again, when the sun shall" slumber in the cloud, for-
getful of the voice of the morning ;"

"When earth's cities have no sound nor tread,
And ships are drifting with the dead,
To shores where all is dumb."

Here upon your northern fields it was, at some dark and dismaying period of our revolution, when army after army had been lost, when wretched and dispirited and beaten, the boldest quailed, the faithfullest despaired, and all, for an instant, seemed to be conquered except the unconquerable will of our glorious chief: here it was, that rising above all the auguries and the terrors around him, he exclaimed to the despairing of his follow. ers as if inspired of Heaven for his work, "Strip me of the wretched and the suffering remnant of my soldiers--take from me all I have left--leave me but a standard--give me but the means of planting it upon the mountains of West Augusta, and I will yet draw around me the men who will lift up their bleed. ing country from the dust and set her free." That" West Augusta" stands here to-day pleading through me, who am a son, for the individual and unbroken heritage of Washington and his comrades. Loyal to the result as to the struggle of the revolu tion-devoted, as when her devotion was counted upon as equivalent to fate-true, as when you were grasped and bound

to the bosom of each other in the hour of distress, it is her hope and her wish to finish with you the destinies of the nation--arm |

THE IDIOT BOY.

BY MISS E. H. STOCKTON.

Strangers would pause, with admiration gazing
Upon the features in their perfect mould
The soft, dark eyes, their lids so meekly raising-
The ivory brow beneath its curls of gold.
The face was of a child-though bud and blossom,
For fifteen summers had enwreathed his home,
Still leaned his head upon his mother's bosom,

Still with his hand in her's he loved to roam.

Slight was his form, yet graceful in its motion,
And sweet the voice that breathed one word alone;
And that-oh who that feels a child's devotion,
But knows his mother's was that dearest one?
And she-her soul was full to overflowing,
Of wild and passionate tenderness for him,
But on his image every thought bestowing
From early morning to the twilight dim.
He held a silent sympathy with nature,

And with a strange, sweet smile would gaze around,
And joy, like light, would brighten every feature,
When in some mossy cleft a flower he found.
The wild-bird in the shady forest singing-
The dream-like music of the southern breeze-
The butterfly its sunny pathway winging,—
Each had a charm the gentle boy to please.

He had no memory of days departed,

His thoughts like rosy shadows came and went--
He was not one of those, the weary-hearted-
Who gaze with sorrow on a life misspent.
Each time when winter came with sombre vesture,
And he beheld the feathery flakes of snow,
He hailed them with the same astonished gesture,
Nor knew that he had seen it long ago.

And still, with every little new-found treasure,
His hasty footsteps to his mother led;
Clasped in her arms he knew a sweeter pleasure,
Than he who feels a crown upon his head.
Poor and a widow was that lonely mother,

And by her daily labor fed her child;
Yet there was no one knew her but to love her;'
She was so gentle and to all so mild.

At last the messenger of death appearing,

Gave warning that the mother's hour was nigh,

When on life's scenes, however sad or cheering,

The mortal form must close the glazing eye. She had no fear-But oh the speechless sorrow, That swelled her heart, and seemed to press her brain, As, picturing to herself the dreary morrow,

She knew her boy would call on her in vain.

But wherefore dwell upon the scene of parting?
God gave sweet rapture to the saint at last,
As on its plumes of glory upward darting,

The joyous spirit knew all grief was past.
Morn came-and the pure sunlight brightly beaming,
Gave to that solemn brow a radiant grace,-

So calm she looked, you might have tho't her dreaming, But for the coldness of the placid face.

Then with a plaintive tone, as half in chiding,
Would murmur "mother," and depart again.

This could not last ;-day after day declining

Gave deeper shadows to the mournful eyes, Though the soft curls upon his forehead shining Still seemed too bright for aught beneath the skiesAnd ere the autumn glory had departed,

They laid him gently by his mother's side: There rest they both in peace-the weary-hearted,Whom time nor death shall ne'er again divide! Philadelphia, March, 1839.

THE SOLAR SYSTEM."

"Mother!"-how like a bird's the note came sounding, NOTICE TO THE REVIEWER OF "NEW VIEWS OF From the red, parted lips that smiled with joy; As, with his wonted step of airy bounding,

He came the orphan child-the Idiot boy! The shroud-the bier-the face of marble whiteness, Seemed to inspire with wonder, not with dread, As he stood gazing in his youthful brightness, The thoughtless living on the unconscious dead. Mother-alas, that word so often filling

Her soul with joy no language might impart,
Gives to the air a music soft and thrilling,

But wakes no echo in that silent heart.
Ah this it is that aye forbids our deeming,
When by the form of death we sit and weep,
That after all it may be only seeming,

And the dear eyes are closed in slumber deep!

'Tis not the pallid brow, or purple tinging

Of the once rosy lip that proves the most ;Nor the dim orbs just seen through lashes fringing, That tell of life and hope forever lost. But oh when tears and cries, our grief revealing, Fail to excite a soothing look or tone, Then how intense becomes the bitter feeling That even with the loved we are alone!

Poor boy! when by each little fond endeavor

His thought could prompt he had essayed in vain, To win one look from eyes now closed forever,

One word from lips that ne'er should speak again,With a sweet patience, he who knew not sorrow,

Close by the bier sat down, of hope possest, Nor left her side till on the weary morrow Exhausted nature claimed and found her rest.

Then to the home of one who loved his mother, Even from her youth, the lonely one was borne; They deemed he'd lose all memory of another, And of the lovely tie so rudely torn.

So on that lowly grave the rose of summer, Blossomed and drooped, and autumn hastened by, Bearing rich blessings like an angel-comer,

Giving new glory to the earth and sky.

And there were strangers in that sacred dwelling,
Where Love had wept and Innocence reposed;
Gay, happy faces of contentment telling,
And shouts of laughter when their labors closed.
And often to the cottage-windows gliding,
A fair, sad boy would gaze a moment in,

Mr. White: Permit me to review my reviewer in part, and in a very few words: reserving for a future occasion a more general review, and a drawing of the distinctive lines between the system I propose, and the system he defends, if indeed he defends any system. As to "ignorance," and "stuff," and "impertinence," I have no objection to make, except, if he pleases, that without a little more reflection on his part, he may find him self placed ultimately in the same condition others have been placed, by opposing the progress of science. He must see that there will be necessarily a vast difference between a physical system founded on a stationary sun, and a physical system founded on a progressive sun. Now would it not have been more philosophical--would it not have comported more with the genius of our country, for him to have entered into an investigation of this difference, and to have given his views of the difference, if any difference could have been discovered by him? I wrote with a view to excite inquiry; and what I principally had in view, was to lay the question before the learned, whether it was or was not a correct scientific principle to compare the Moon moving round the Earth, with Mercury round the sun? I too adverted to that which I consider to be the fact, the progressive motion of the sun; and of course, if so, then the progression of the sun must limit the progression of the planets, and that consequently their progressive motion must be equal. Now if this state of the system really exists, he (the reviewer) will find it no easy matter to apply all the principles of Sir Isaac Newton to such orbits, as the planets do actually describe, they having been applied to orbits which in fact have no existence, with, however, some exceptions--such as the eccentricity of their orbits, which really exists, but which is produced by the progressive motion of the system itself, and not from any principle advocated by Sir Isaac Newton, La Grange, or La Place. For all the phenomena discovered by the practical astronomer among the planets, as their times, and their purturbations, as the inner planets pass the outer ones, and as the inner moons pass those more remote from their primaries, the Principia of Newton may be considered good authority, excepting the means by which such phenomena are produced. The Principia applied to a physical system, supposed to be stationary, and occupying the same local position without progressing in any direction; but it is now supposed that such a fixed locality is incompatible with other views of astronomers, and the more recently discovered phenomena, and that of course the whole requires recasting. Well; I propose a system suited to a progressing sun, and why? Certainly not with a view to injure any science, but, on the contrary, to promote scientific inquiry in our own country.

Now, sir, I would be glad to see a review of the paper on the Tides, in the December No., by the same author; and he is at full liberty to use any epithets, he may (however unphilosophical) think necessary and proper to call to his aid. Ithank him for the objections he has made to my views so far as he has gone; but I fear from the manner and style of his objections that he is not very well qualified to do justice even to himself. But be that as it may, I will take the liberty now to say to him, that the great question to be settled will render it necessary for me to draw largely upon Newton, La Grange, and La Place, and also on a still later astronomer than either, Sir John Herschell.

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Anderson, Miss Lavinia E..Chesterfield Court House......vol 5, Anorum, W. A....bwh....Camden, South Carolina......vol v Anderson, Dr. L. D..eda......Flemmingsburg, Ky......vol 5 A derson, Garrett.. Washington City....vol 4-5 Atkins, John D......... Albany, Baker county, Geo......vol v Augusta College. ...Augusta, Kentucky......vol 5 Anderson, J. Mecklenburg, North Carolina......vol v Allen, J. W F. Moorefield, Hardy county, Va......vol v ..Richmond, Virginia......vol v New Bedford, Massachusetts....vol v Brodnax, John W .Chapel Hill, North Carolina......vol v B, J. L.. Lagrange, Troup county, Georgia. ...vol 4 Bisley, Williar P....Lagrage, Troup co., Georgia......vol 4 Barnes, E. G..........Perry Court House, Alabama......vol v Bet, Benjamir Lloyd.. Richmond, Virginia......vol 5 Brown, Mrs James M. ..Lynchburg, Virginia......vol v Bond, WilliaKey.. Chilicothe, Ohio......vol 5 .Clinton, Georgia......vol 5 ...Kentucky......vol 5 Brown, Be ford..... Brown's Store, North Carolina......vol v Bayly, Josiah.. Cambridge, Maryland......vol 5 ...Augusta, Georgia......vola Windsor, North Carolina......vol 5 .Windsor, North Carolina......vol 5 -gwb.. Clinton, Louisiana......vol v ..gwb.....Clinton, Louisiana....vol 4-5 .gwb.....Clinton, Louisiana....vol 4-5 Washington City......vol v .St. Louis, Missouri....vol 4-5 ..eda.....Maysville, Kentucky......vol 5 .Cooperstown, New York......vol v Bradford, J. Stricker. ..nh... Baltimore, Maryland......vol v Belcher, William W. .... Calhoun's Mills, S. C......vol 5 Berryhill, Isaac........gwb......Clinton, Louisiana......vo 5 Berton, John B. ..Suffolk, Virginia......vol 5 BL, George W. ...................rn....................Norfolk, Virginia......vol 5 Burwell, Miss Jean B..... .Mecklenburg, Virginia......vol v Tagett, Miss Olivia... Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia......vol 5 owen, P. L..... Clinton, Georgia. ...vol 5 Chambers, James M.. .Columbus, Georgia......vol 5 Cark, Bowling...Marysville, Campbell co. Virginia......vol 5 Do Dr. George.....Clark's Store, Morth Carolina.. ...vol v aell, Mayo. ..Tye River Warehouse......vol v Carlton, P. W......wfr... Jackson, Mississippi......vol 5 Tadle, James G. ..Alexandria, D. C......vol 4 herry, Joseph B.. Windsor, North Carolina......vol 5 s. R... ...gwb........Clinton, Louisiana......vol v apman, W. W......gwb..... Clinton, Louisiana......vol v stock, W. B......gwb......Clinton, Louisiana.. ...vol v ter, A. G.. ....gwb....... Jackson, Louisiana......vol v way, Edward.. University of Virginia......vul 4 ement, George W.. Lynchburg, Virginia......vol 5 coran, Mrs H. H. Georgetown, D. C......vol v well, John H.. ...Laurel Grove, Virginia......vol 5 gp, J. L.... .Washington City......vol v Washington City, D. C.. ..vol v Holly Springs, Mississippi......vol 5 ........ Williamsburg, Virginia......vol 5 on, Miss Henrietta.......Kanawha co. Virginia.. ..vol 4 ns, Dr. William...rn.... Portsmouth. Virginia. ....vol v ristian, Robert W.. Charles City Court House, Va......vol 5 Bratian, James H.. Charles City Court House, Va......vol 5 Carne, Mrs. Ellen S........Richmond, Virginia......vol 4 dwell, James.. ..Wheeling, Virginia......vol 5 e, John. Washington, City, D. C......vol 5 arton, Judge Robert M...... Savannah Georgia......vol 5 Saussure, John M.bwh.Camden, South Carolina......vol 5 Dargan, George W.....Darlington, South Carolina......vol 5 La Mouta, Jr. Jacob......... Savannah, Georgia......vol 5 ew, Mrs. Catharine.......King & Queen, Virginia....vol 3-4 Dudey, A..............rn....... Norfolk, Virginia......vol 5 Erville Lyceum.. .......Danville, Virginia......vol v mpsey, Joseph.. Wheeling, Virginia......vol v Deason, Miss Anna C..... New Haven, Connecticut......vol 5 sophian Adelphi of Waterville College....Maine......vol 4 Pawellen, Dr. A. H.. ....Clinton, Georgia......vol 5 , Dr. Benjamin... ......Stevensville, Virginia......vol v go, H. W. Demopolis, Alabama......vol 5 .Alexandria, D. C......vol 4 ...Georgetown, D. C......vol v .Washington City, D. C......vol 3 Warrenton, North Carolina......vol 4 ........Buckingham Court House......vol v ...Borodino, Louisiana. ...vol v awler, C. S..Washington City, District of Columbia......vol 5 ....Vernon, Mississippi......vol 5 Lexington, Virginia......vol 5 on, William. ..Huntsville, Alabama......vol 5 , A. Coyle.. Washington City, D. C......vol 5 ard, Robert G............. Savannah, Georgia.. .....vol 5

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Gordon, Nathaniel..
Richmond, Virginia......vol 4
Griswold, S. L......brp. Auburn, New York......vol 5
Gregory, Thomas L. B.. Enfield, N. Carolina......vol 4
Goodwin, Miss Frances Ann..... Tolersville, Louisa......vol v
Griswold, E. C..
Clinton, Georgia........volv
Hampton, Robert A.........Pittsburg, Pennsylvania......vo! 5
Hamilton, A. W...
.Oxford, Ohio......vol 5
Hillsman, J. R....Warrenton, Warren co., Georgia.. ..vol 5
Hickman, D......Middlebourne, Tyler co., Virginia....
....vol 5
Harrison, Dr. Frederick W
Gholsonville, Va.. ...vol v
Harris, Mrs. Susan B.... ..Elberton, Georgia......vol v
Howe, Mrs. Sarah J... ....Clark's Mills, Ohio......vol 5
Holmes, W. H...
Hamilton, Robert..
Hale, James

...Suffolk, Virginia......vol 5
..Petersburg, Virginia....vol 5
.Augusta, Georgia.. ..vol 5
Hardesty, L.... .gwb.
Clinton, Louisiana......vol 5
Huntington, B. W...bwh..Camden, South Carolina......vol v
Hardwicke, C. A.....Oochee, Russell co., Alabama......vol 4
Hamner, John C..... Liberty, Bedford co., Virginia......vol v
Hussy, George F......New Bedford, Massachusetts......vol v
Hunter, William.
Cahawba, Alabama......vol 5
Holeman, Dr. George P......New Canton, Virginia....vol 4-5
Harris, Miss N. F.. New Amsterdam, Hanover......vol v
Henderson, Dr. Lawson F Canton, Mississippi......vol v
Harris, E. W..... .jpw. ........Athens, Georgia....vo) 3-4
Hardy, Mrs. Elizabeth....rn..... Norfolk, Virginia......vol 5
Herndon, John M.........Fredericksburg, Virginia......vol 5
Hawes, Walker..h&d...Ayletts, King William, Va......vol v
Hardaway, Mrs. Sarah Ann.....Nottoway, Virginia......vol v
Heth, Miss Marg't...Mime Guillou's..Philadelphia.. ..vol v
Howell, Mrs. S........ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..
Harvey, Miss Margaret E..Washington, N. Carolina......vol v
Hough, Jr., David L... . Baltimore, Maryland......vol v
Jones, Alexander S....... Boydton, Mecklenburg co......vol 5
Jones, Samuel.....Physick's Springs, Buckingham......vol v
Jones, P. B....
Richmond, Virginia......vol 5

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Columbus, Georgia......vol 5
Vernon, Mississippi.. ..vol v
Oxford, North Carolina......vol 5
Williamson co. Tenn......vol 5
Washington City......vol 5
..Leesburg, Loudoun, Va......vol 5
.Richmond, Kentucky......vol 5
Alexandria, D. C......vol 5
Fredericksburg, Virginia......vol 5
New York......vol y

Jones, Albert C.......Isle of Wight county, Virginia....vol 4-5
Jones, S. Clarke..
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania......vol v
Jones, James S..
Greensborough, Alabama... .vol v
Jordan, Thomas..h&d..Ayletts, King William, Va...vol 3-4-5
Johnson, Dr. Charles E...Windsor, North Carolina......vol 5
Keeling, Rev. John W..
.Suffolk, Virginia......vol 5
Key, Francis S... ..........Washington City......vol v
King, Mrs. Sarah Ann... Richmond, Virginia......vol v
Kincaid, Miss Susan....Greenbrier county, Virginia......vol 4
Keesee, George..
.Richmond, Virginia......vol v
Lang, W. T..
..Georgetown, D. C......vol v
Lang, W. W......bwh....Camden, South Carolina......vol 5
Lang, J. W......bwh.....Camden, South Carolina......vol v
Lay, John O...
.Richmond, Virginia......vol 5
Lockhart, Mrs. Octavia Frances....Tuscumbia, Ala......vol 5
Lewis, Mrs C. E...
Lewis, W. W.
Miller, Thomas.
Maury, A. P........Franklin,
Maury, J. W..
Mason, Stevens T........
Madison Library..
Miller, Samuel..
Maddox, J. H..
Merrill, Thomas..
Macomb, Major General Alex..... Washington City......vol 5
Mallet, William....bwh...Camden, South Carolina......vol 5
McCarer, W. H.... Darlington C H., South Carolina......vol 5
Mercer, General Hugh....Fredericksburg, Virginia......vol 5
Merrill, E. H........ nh...
.Baltimore......vol v
McGowen, Janies......Hope, Pickens co, Alabama......vol v
McDonald, D. P......Rockingham, North Carolina......vol 5
Mitchell, Charles L..
. Lafayette, Alabama......vol 5
Mitchell. William..
Richmond, Virginia,.....vol 5
Massey, Sam'l B..Lancaster C. H., South Carolina......vol 5
Mason, John T. J..
Sussex Court House......vol v
Mitchel!, William M......Fredericksburg, Virginia......vol v
Newman. Dr. Robert..
..Romney, Virginia......vol 5
Nicklin. Dr. Israel.... .Middlebourne, Virginia......vol 5
Noble, Theron A.....Middleburg, Portage co., Ohio......vol v
Norwood, A. J....gwb....Richland Hill, Louisiana......vol 5
Nourse. William........... Washington City, D. C......vol v
Nash, Dr. Thomas......rn...... Norfolk, Virginia......vol 4
Owen, John.... ........Cambridge, Massachusetts......vol 4
Oldham, James.
Toulon, Tennessee....vol 4-5
Pope, Dr. C. J...
. Clinton, Georgia......vol 5
Parrish, John H.. .Greensborough, Alabama......vol 5
Purse, Edward... .......Savannah, Georgia. ....vol 5
Phillips, D. P....................Norfolk, Virginia......vol 5
Perkins, John T..
..West Point, New York......vol v
Penn, Miss Catharine........Penn's Store, Virginia......vol 5
Parker. J. R.........
.Utica, New York......vol 5
Pipes, David.. .....gwb..
........Clinton, Louisiana......vol 5
Perkinson, Miss Louisa R....... Jetersville, Amelia......vol á

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