not how I can better close my narrative than to advise the rising generation to love their country, and keep clear of debt as much as possible, for the want of a single hundred dollars has often determined and spoiled a young man's fortunes for ever. And I will only add that by diligent industry and rigid economy, and the never abating of my wife's energies and devotion, I now find myself possessed of a good little farm, two faithful servants, Anthony and Dick, and a comfortable cottage, freed from debt; and being now far advanced in years, I shall soon close my earthly career, with hopes of admission to a better and brighter world, where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary shall be for ever at rest. PART SECOND. CHAPTER I. WHEN the biography of an individual is offered to the public, it is generally after the people who are or have been acquainted with the life he had lived have expressed a desire that such a thing should be done for the reason that such a person is or has been of more value to his fellow-men, or proved himself a more extraordinary character in some manner, than those with whom we deal every day, or have dealt in the affairs which constitute the ordinary commerce of life. In the present humble offering we have attempted to tell the story of such an individual, believing as we did that his name and deeds deserved some space—at least a niche in memory; and though in doing so it has not been our lot to give in detail. the career of some renowned statesman, com |