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Then the cross of Christ shall stand
On that consecrated land.

Yea, the light of freedom smiles
On the Grecian phalanx now,
Breaks upon Ionia's isles,

And on Ida's lofty brow;
And the shouts of battle swell,
Where the Spartan lion fell!

Where the Spartan lion fell,

Proud and dauntless in the strife:
How triumphant was his knell!
How sublime his close of life!
Glory shone upon his eye,
Glory which can never die!

Soon shall earth awake in might;
Retribution shall arise;
And all regions shall unite,

To obtain the glorious prize;
And oppression's iron crown,
To the dust be trodden down.

When the Almighty shall deform
Heaven in his hour of wrath;
When the angel of the storm,
Sweeps in fury on his path;
Then shall tyranny be hurled
From the bosom of the world.

Yet, O freedom! yet awhile,

All mankind shall own thy sway;
And the eye of God shall smile

On thy brightly dawning day;
And all nations shall adore
At thine altar evermore.

STANZAS.

Life hath its sunshine; but the ray
Which flashes on its stormy wave
Is but the beacon of decay,

A meteor gleaming o'er the grave;
And though its dawning hour is brigat
With fancy's gayest colouring,
Yet o'er its cloud-encumbered night,
Dark ruin flaps his raven wing.
Life hath its flowers; and what are they?
The buds of early love and truth,
Which spring and wither in a day,

The gems of warm, confiding youth: Alas! those buds decay and die,

Ere ripened and matured in bloom; E'en in an hour, behold them lie

Upon the still and lonely tomb! Life hath its pang of deepest thrill; Thy sting, relentless memory! Which wakes not, pierces not, until The hour of joy hath ceased to be. Then, when the heart is in its pall,

And cold afflictions gather o'er, Thy mournful anthem doth recall

Bliss which hath died to bloom no more. Life hath its blessings; but the storm

Sweeps like the desert wind in wrath, To sear and blight the loveliest form

Which sports on earth's deceitful path. O! soon the wild heart-broken wail,

So changed from youth's delightful tone, Floats mournfully upon the gale,

When all is desolate and lone. Life hath its hope; a matin dream, A cankered flower, a setting sun, Which casts a transitory gleam Upon the even's cloud of dun

Pass but an hour, the dream hath fled,
The flowers on earth forsaken lie;
The sun hath set, whose lustre shed
A light upon the shaded sky.

JACOB B. MOORE.

JACOB BAILEY MOORE, the father of the subject of the present sketch, was born September 5, 1772, at Georgetown, on the Kennebeck, Maine. He was descended from a Scotch family, who emigrated to New England in the early part of the eighteenth century. Following the profession of his father, a physician, and during the Revolutionary war surgeon of a national vessel, he settled, after qualifying himself almost entirely by his own exertions, in the practice of medicine at Andover, in 1796, where he remained until he accepted, in 1812, the appointment of surgeon's mate in the Eleventh regiment of United States Infantry. He remained in the service until December of the same year, when he retired, much broken in health, and died on the 10th of January following.

Dr. Moore was an excellent musician, and composed several pieces, a few of which were published in Holyoke's Repository. He was also the author of numerous songs and epistles, which appeared in the newspapers of the day.

Jacob Bailey, the son of Dr. Moore, was born at Andover, October 31, 1797. He was apprenticed, while a boy, in the office of the New Hampshire Patriot, one of the leading journals of New England, and which is remarkable for the number of distinguished editors and politicians it has furnished, alike from its type-setting and editorial desks, to all parts of the country.

The Patriot was at this time owned by the celebrated Isaac Hill.* At the expiration of his indentures Mr. Moore became the partner of Mr. Hill, and afterwards, by marriage with Mr. Hill's sister, his brother-in-law. The two conducted the paper until January, 1823, when the partnership expired. Mr. Moore then devoted himself to the bookselling and publishing busi

ness.

He had previously, in April, 1822, commenced the publication of Collections,-Topogra phical, Historical, and Biographical, relating principally to New Hampshire. He was assisted

Isaac Hill, one of the most influential political writers of the country, was born at Cambridge, Mass., April 6, 1788. He was taught the trade of a printer, and in 189 removed to Concord, N. H., where he purchased the office of the American Patriot, a paper started about six months before, which he discontinued, and on the 18th of April, 1809, published the first number of the New Hampshire Patriot, a newspaper he continued to edit until 1829, filling at various times within the same period, the offices of senator and representative in the State Legisla ture. He was appointed Second Comptroller of the Treasury by General Jackson, but was rejected by the Senate, a rejection which led to his election by the Legislature of his state, as a member of the body which had refused to confirm his nomination. He remained in the Senate until 1886, when he was elected Governor of his State, an office which he filled during three successive terms. He afterwards established Hill's New Hampshire Patriot, a paper in which he opposed certain new measures of the Democratic party, of which he had long been the leader in the state, with such success, that he regained his impaired influence, and united his new paper with the Patriot, in which he had so long battled. He also, in January, 1839, commenced an agricultural periodical, The Farmer's Monthly Visitor, which is still continued.

The activity of his career was after this period much impaired by disease. He, however, still continued his interest in politics, and was an influential advocate of the Compromise Measures of 1850. He died at Washington, March 22, 1851.

in the editorship of this work by Dr. J. Farmer.* The publication comprised original articles of research, on topics embraced in its plan, and reprints of curious manuscripts, tracts, poems, and fugitive productions, illustrating the same topic. A portion of its pages was also devoted to reviews and other magazine matter, of a contemporary character. It was conducted with much ability until its close, in December, 1824. It forms, in its completed shape, a series of three octavo volumes.

The publication we have named was one of the first devoted to local history in the country. It did good service in calling attention to many important subjects, and fostering a spirit of close historical inquiry.

During the continuance of this work Mr. Moore also prepared and published with Dr. Farmer, A Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire, in a duodecimo volume.

In 1824 Mr. Moore published Annals of the Town of Concord, from its first Settlement in the year 1726 to the year 1823, with several Biographical Sketches; to which is added, A Memoir of the Penacook Indians,t a work of much interest, research, and value.

In 1826 Mr. Moore commenced The New Hampshire Journal, a political paper, which he maintained with ability and influence until December, 1829, when it passed into other hands, and was soon after united with the New Hampshire Statesman. In 1828 he was elected a representative to the State Legislature, and in 1829 appointed sheriff of the county of Merrimack, an office which he retained for five years. After being connected for a short time with the Concord Statesman, he removed in 1839 to the city of New York, where he became the editor of The Daily Whig, an influential journal during the Harrison campaign. In 1840 he published The Laws of Trade in the United States: being an abstract of the statutes of the several States and Territories concerning Debtors and Creditors; a small volume, designed as a popular manual on the subject. After the election, he obtained an important clerkship in the Post-office department at Washington. On the accession of Mr. Polk, in 1845, he was removed, and returning to New

John Farmer was born at Chelmsford, Mass., June 12, 1789. He was a descendant of Edward Farmer, who emigrated from Warwickshire to Billerica, Mass., in 1760. He received the limited education afforded in his boyhood at the common schools, and at the age of sixteen became a clerk in a store at Amherst, New Hampshire. In 1810 he abandoned this occupation for that of school-keeping. He next studied medicine, and opened an apothecary's store at Concord, in 1821, with Dr. Samuel Morril, a circumstance to which he owes the title, popularly bestowed, of Doctor, having never completed a course of medical studies or applied for a degree. It was in this position that he continued, in his leisure hours, to the close of his life, August 13, 1838, the laborious researches which he had already commenced, in the annals of New England.

Dr. Farmer's chief work is his Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, &c.; to which are added, carious Biographical and Genealogical Notes in which he traces the families of New England to their foundation in this country. He also prepared a new edition of Belknap's History of New Hampshire,t containing various corrections and illustrations of that work, and additional facts and notices of persons and events, therein mentioned.

Dr. Farmer was also the author of several tracts relating to local history, and a frequent contributor to the Collections of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Historical Societies. + pp. 112.

* Lancaster, Mass., 8vo. pp. 352. † Dover, N. H., bv. pp. 512.

York became librarian of the New York Historical Society.

In this position, congenial to his tastes as an historian, Mr. Moore remained, devoting himself earnestly to the preservation, arrangement, and enlargement of one of the most valuable collections of works illustrative of American History in existence, until by the changing fortunes of politics his friends were again placed in power in 1848, and he received the appointment of postmaster to San Francisco.

In this office Mr. Moore rendered an important service to the country by his indefatigable labors in systematizing the business of the department, under circumstances of unusual difficulty. He returned after the next change of administration, with a di-case contracted in California, which closed his career a few months after, on the first of September, 1853.

In 1846 Mr. Moore published the first volume of the Memoirs of American Governors, embracing those of New Plymouth, from 1620 to 1692, and of Massachusetts Bay, from 1630 to 1689. It was his design to continue the series until it comprised Memoirs of the Colonial and Provincial Governors to the time of the Revolution. The portion relating to New England was left by him in MS.,. ready for the press, and much of the remainder of the work in a fragmentary form.

Mr. Moore was throughout his life an active collector of historical material. Even in California he found time to preserve the newspaper and fugitive literature of the eventful period of his sojourn.

HENRY EATON MOORE, a brother of Jacob B. Moore, was born at Andover, N. H., 21st July, 1803. He served his time with his brother and Isaac Hill. He published the Grafton Journal at Plymouth, N. H., from the 1st January, 1825, till March, 1826, when it ceased. During the latter portion of his life he gave his whole attention to music; became a thorough proficient in the science, and distinguished as a teacher and composer. He was author of the Musical Catechism; Merrimack Collection of Instrumental Music; New Hampshire Collection of Church Music; The Choir; a Collection of Anthems, Choruses, and Set Pieces; and the Northern Harp-a Collection of Sacred Harmony. He died at East Cambridge, Mass., October 23, 1841.

JOHN WEEKS MOORE, another brother of the same family, was born at Andover, N. H., April 11, 1807; was educated as a printer by his brother, Jacob B. Moore. He has been connected with several journals, and edited the Bellows Falls Gazette, Vt., for several years. His principal work is the Complete Encyclopædia of Music-Elementary, Technical, Historical, Biogra phical, Vocal, and Instrumental.*

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD, the son of Dr. Samuel S. Seward of Florida, Orange County, New York, was born in that village on the sixteenth of May, 1801. His early fondness for books induced his parents to give him a liberal education, and after a preparation at various schools in the neighbor

Roy. 8vo. pp. 1004. Boston: 1654

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

hood of his residence, he entered Union College in 1816. After completing his course at that institution with distinguished honor, he studied law at New York with John Anthon, and afterwards with John Duer and Ogden Hoffman. Soon after his admission to the bar he commenced practice in Auburn, New York, where he married in 1824.

Mr. Seward rapidly rose to distinction in his profession. He took an active interest in favor of the re-election of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency, and presided at a convention of the young men of the state, held in furtherance of that object in Utica, August 12, 1828. In 1830 he was nominated and elected by the anti-masonic party a member of the State Senate, where he remained for four years. In 1833 he made a tour in Europe of a few months with his father, during which he wrote home a series of letters which were published in the Albany Evening Journal. He was nominated in 1834 as the candidate of the Whig party for the office of Governor of the State, and was defeated, but on his re-nomination in 1838 was elected. During his administration, his recommendation of the change in the school system, called for by the Roman Catholics, and which was finally adopted, caused much discussion and opposition.

His administration was one crowded with important events, and his course on many disputed questions was in opposition on some occasions to his party friends as well as political opponents, but was universally regarded as marked by personal ability. He was re-elected in 1840, but in 1842, declining a re-nomination, retired to the practice of his profession at Auburn. During the six following years he was principally engaged in this manner, appearing in the course of his duties as counsel in several important trials in the state and national tribunals with great success. took an active part as a speaker in the presidential campaigns of 1844 and 1848, and in February, 1849, was chosen by a large majority United States Senator. On the expiration of his term in 1855, he was re-elected to the same body.

He

Mr. Seward has taken a prominent position in the Senate as an opponent of the compromise of 1850, and of the repeal of the Missouri compromise. In 1853 an edition of his works was published in New York in three octavo volumes, containing a complete collection of his speeches in the state and national senate, and before popular assemblies, with his messages as governor, his forensic arguments, a number of miscellaneous addresses, his letters from Europe, and selections from his public correspondence. One of the most valuable portions of these volumes, in a literary and historical point of view, is the Notes on New York, originally issued as the Introduction to the Natural History of New York, published by the legislature in 1842. It extends to 172 octavo pages, and contains a carefully prepared and Highly interesting review of the intellectual progress of the state in science, literature, and art.

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A kind of reverence is paid by all nations to antiquity. There is no one that does not trace its lineage

From an Address at Yale College, 1854.

We

from the gods, or from those who were especially fa-
vored by the gods. Every people has had its age of
gold, or Augustan age, or heroic age-an age, alas!
for ever passed. These prejudices are not altogether
unwholesome. Although they produce a conviction
of declining virtue, which is unfavorable to generous
emulation, yet a people at once ignorant and irre-
verential would necessarily become licentious. Ne-
vertheless, such prejudices ought to be modified. It
is untrue, that in the period of a nation's rise from
disorder to refinement, it is not able to continually
We see the present, plainly, dis-
surpass itself.
tinetly, with all its coarse outlines, its rough inequa-
lities, its dark blots, and its glaring deformities.
hear all its tumultuous sounds and jarring discords.
We see and hear the past, through a distance which
reduces all its inequalities to a plane, mellows all its
shades into pleasing hue, and subdues even its
hoarsest voices into harmony. In our own case, the
prejudice is less erroneous than in most others. The
revolutionary age was truly a heroic one.
gencies called forth the genius, and the talents, and
the virtues of society, and they ripened amid the
hardships of a long and severe trial. But there were
selfishness, and vice, and factions, then, as now, al-
though comparatively subdued and repressed. You
have only to consult impartial history, to learn that
neither public faith, nor public loyalty, nor private
virtue, culminated at that period in our own coun-
try, while a mere glance at the literature, or at the
stage, or at the politics of any European country, in
any previous age, reveals the fact that it was marked,
more distinctly than the present, by licentious mo-
rals and mean ambition.

Its exi

Reasoning à priori again, as we did in another case, it is only just to infer in favor of the United States an improvement of morals from their established progress in knowledge and power; otherwise, the philosophy of society is misunderstood, and we must change all our courses, and henceforth seek safety in imbecility, and virtue in superstition and ignorance.

What shall be the test of the national morals? Shall it be the eccentricity of crimes? Certainly not; for then we must compare the criminal eccentricity of to-day with that of yesterday. The result of the comparison would be only this, that the crimes of society change with changing circumstances.

Loyalty to the state is a public virtue. Was it ever deeper-toned or more universal than it is now? I know there are ebullitions of passion and discontent, sometimes breaking out into disorder and violence; but was faction ever more effectually disarmed and harmless than it is now? There is a loyalty that springs from the affection that we bear to our native soil. This we have as strong as any people. But it is not the soil alone, nor yet the soil beneath our feet and the skies over our heads, that constitute our country. It is its freedom, equality, justice, greatness, and glory. Who among us is so low as to be insensible of an interest in them? Four hundred thousand natives of other lands every year voluntarily renounce their own sovereigns, and swear Who has ever known an Amefealty to our own. rican to transfer his allegiance permanently to a foreign power?

The spirit of the laws, in any country, is a true index to the morals of a people, just in proportion to the power they exercise in making them. Who complains here or elsewhere, that crime or immorality blots our statute-books with licentious enactments?

The character of a country's magistrates, legislators, and captains, chosen by a people, reflects their own. It is true that in the earnest canvassing which

so frequently recurring elections require, suspicion often follows the magistrate, and scandal follows in the footsteps of the statesman. Yet, when his course has been finished, what magistrate has left a name tarnished by corruption, or what statesman has left an act or an opinion so erroneous that decent charity cannot excuse, though it may disapprove? What chieftain ever tempered military triumph with so much moderation as he who, when he had placed our standard on the battlements of the capital of Mexico, not only received an offer of supreme authority from the conquered nation, but declined it?

The manners of a nation are the outward form of its inner life. Where is woman held in so chivalrous respect, and where does she deserve that eminence better? Where is property more safe, commercial honor better sustained, or human life more sacred?

Moderation is a virtue in private and in public life. Has not the great increase of private wealth manifested itself chiefly in widening the circle of education and elevating the standard of popular intelligence? With forces which, if combined and directed by ambition, would subjugate this continent at once, we have made only two very short warsthe one confessedly a war of defence, and the other ended by paying for a peace and for a domain already fully conquered.

Where lies the secret of the increase of virtue which has thus been established? I think it will be found in the entire emancipation of the consciences of men from either direct or indirect control by established ecclesiastical or political systems. Religious classes, like political parties, have been left to compete in the great work of moral education, and to entitle themselves to the confidence and affection of society, by the purity of their faith and of their morals.

may

I am well aware that some, who may be willing to adopt the general conclusions of this argument, will object that it is not altogether sustained by the action of the government itself, however true be that it is sustained by the great action of society. I cannot enter a field where truth is to be sought among the disputations of passion and prejudice. I may say, however, in reply first, that the governments of the United States, although more perfect than any other, and although they embrace the great ideas of the age more fully than any other, are, nevertheless, like all other governments, founded on compromises of some abstract truths and of some natural rights.

As government is impressed by its constitution, so it must necessarily act. This may suffice to explain the phenomenon complained of. But it is true, also, that no government ever did altogether act out, purely and for a long period, all the virtues of its original constitution. Hence it is that we are so well told by Bolingbroke, that every nation must perpetually renew its constitution or perish. Hence, moreover, it is a great excellence of our system, that Sovereignty resides, not in Congress and the president, nor yet in the governments of the states, but in the people of the United States. If the sovereign be just and firm and uncorrupted, the governments can always be brought back from any aberrations, and even the constitutions themselves, if in any degree imperfect, can be amended. This great idea of the sovereignty of the people over their government glimmers in the British system, while it fills our own with a broad and glowing light.

Let not your king and parliament in one,
Much less apart, mistake themselves for that
Which is most worthy to be thought upon,
Nor think they are essentially the STATE.

Let them not fancy that the authority

And privileges on them bestowed,
Conferred, are to set up a majesty,

state.

Or a power or a glory of their own:
But let them know it was for a deeper life
Which they but represent;

That there's on earth a yet augnster thing, Veiled though it be, than parliament or king. Gentlemen, you are devoted to the pursuit of knowledge in order that you may impart it to the What Fenelon was to France, you may be to your country. Before you teach, let me enjoin upon you to study well the capacity and the disposition of the American people. I have tried to prove to you only that while they inherit the imperfections of humanity they are yet youthful, apt, vigorous, and virtuous, and therefore, that they are worthy, and will make noble uses of your best instructions.

WILLIAM H FURNESS.

WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS was graduated at Harvard College in 1820; studied theology, and soon after his ordination in 1823, became the minister of a Unitarian church in Philadelphia. He published in 1836 a volume on the Four Gospels, which he expanded into a large work in 1888, entitled Jesus and His Biographers. He is also the author of A Life of Christ; a manual of Domestic Worship and Family Prayer Book; and a number of published discourses, lectures, addresses, and contributions to reviews and other periodicals.

Dr. Furness has translated Schiller's "Song of the Bell," and a number of other German poems, with great beauty and fidelity. A portion of these have been collected in a small volume with the title, Song of the Bell, and Other Poems. He is also the author of several hymns included in the collection in use by his denomination.

His theological position is somewhat peculiar and quite conspicuous, even in a denomination so strongly marked by individualities as his own. He accepts for the most part the miraculous facts of the New Testament, yet accounts for them by the moral and spiritual forces resulting from the pre-eminent character of the Saviour, who, in his view, is an exalted form of humanity.

As a preacher, Dr. Furness has great power, and his sermons, of which he has a volume in press, are remarkable for the union of speculation and feeling.

ΠΥΜΝ.

What is this? and whither, whence,
This consuming secret sense,
Longing for its rest and food,
In some hidden, untried good?
Naught that charms the ear or eyû
Can its hunger satisfy;
Active, restless, it would pierce
Through the outward universe.
'Tis the soul, mysterious name!
God it seeks, from God it came;
While I muse, I feel the fire,
Burning on, and mounting higher.
Onward, upward, to thy throne,
O thou Infinite, unknown,
Still it presseth, till it see
Thee in all, and all in thee.

HYMN.

I feel within a want

For ever burning there;

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, S. C.; SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA.

What I so thirst for, grant,

O Thou who hearest prayer! This is the thing I crave,

A likeness to thy Son; This would I rather have

Than call the world my own. Tis my most fervent prayer; Be it more fervent still, Be it my highest care, Be it my settled will.

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, S. C.-SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, COLUMBIA.

ONE of the first liberal institutions of learning founded in South Carolina was the College of Charleston. It was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature in 1786. Several legacies had been left by citizens of the state, endowing the first college which might be chartered, and these the College of Charleston shared in common with two others which were chartered on the same day.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, afterwards Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the diocese, then the master of a grammar-school in Charleston, was appointed the Principal, and in 1794 the first class graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The old barracks of the city were employed as the college edifice; and here the studies were continued until 1825. The institution never having been separated from the grammar-school, did not acquire the rank of a college, and in a few years became merely a private school. In 1829 it was revived under the superintendence of Bishop Bowen, its oldest graduate, by the union of three of the principal private schools in the city; and by means of the liberality of the citizens the old barracks were removed and a more commodious building erected. Bishop Bowen, having reorganized the college, retired from its management, and was succeeded by the Rev. Jasper Adains, D.D. The grammar-school was still attached to the college; and financial difficulties having arisen, the exercises were suspended in 1835.

In 1837 the charter was amended, the college ceded its property to the city, which in return charged itself with its maintenance, and it was reorganized in 1838, the Rev. William Brantly being appointed president. Dr. Brantly died in 1845, and was succeeded by the present incumbent, W. Peronneau Finley. The faculty consists of a President, and Professors of Moral Sciences, Greek and Latin, Astronomy and Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, History and Belles Lettres, and of Zoology and Paleontology, with the Curatorship of the Museum or Cabinet of Natural History attached.

The late Elias Horry, Esq., by a donation of six thousand dollars, founded the Horry Professorship of Moral Philosophy, which is held ex officio by the President. In 1848 the citizens generally, by subscription, endowed a Professorship of History and Belles Lettres.

To the liberality of the citizens also, at the suggestion made in 1850, at the session in Charleston of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the college is indebted for a very large and valuable Cabinet of Natural History. Among those who were most forward in contributing to this collection may be mentioned the names of Messrs. Tuomey, Holmes, Bachman, Au

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| dubon, and Agassiz. Dr. L. A. Frampton has presented his valuable library to the college, and the munificence of the legislature has supplied the means of building a suitable house for its reception. The late Ker Boyce, Esq., bequeathed by his will the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the support of young men of the Baptist communion, while attending the course of instruction in the college. The average number of students is from fifty to sixty; and the curriculum does not differ materially from that of other colleges in the Union.

The Rev. J. W. Miles, eminent as a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Charleston, for his scholarship and for his fine philosophical powers of mind, was connected with this institution as Professor of the History of Philosophy and of Greek Literature. His published addresses -a discourse before the graduating class in 1851; The Ground of Morals, a discourse on a similar occasion in 1852; and another, The Student of Philology, at the close of the same year before the Literary Societies of the South Carolina College -exhibit his scholarship, vigor, and originality of thought and enthusiasm. An elaborate work from his pen, published by John Russell in Charleston, Philosophic Theology; or Ultimate Grounds of all Religious Belief based in Reason, established his reputation as a theologian. The work is a metaphysical discussion of points of faith, "springing from the necessity which the mind of the writer has felt for rendering to itself a sufficient reason for its convictions respecting religious belief, upon grounds of certainty, beyond the ordinary sphere of controversy." Mr. Miles was the orator appointed by the joint committee of the city council and citizens of Charleston on occasion of the funeral of the Hon. John C. Calhoun. In his address he presented a philosophical view of the character and relations of the statesman. He has also been a contributor to the Southern Quarterly Review.

SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE was founded by Act of Assembly in December, 1801, which declared that the proper education of youth should always be an object of legislative attention as contributing to the prosperity of society; and placed the institution in a central position "where all its youth may be educated for the good order and harmony of the whole." A board of trustees was established which secured to the college the services and influence of the first men of the state. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, and all the judges and chancellors are trustees ex officio, and twenty others are elected by the Legislature every four years. The Governor is President of the Board. Lately the Chairmen of the Committees of both houses on the College and Education, are made ex officio members. The full board is composed of thirty-six, generally of the most influential men in the state.

The accommodations for students are ample. A new hall for Commencement and other purposes has been lately added to the buildings, at an expense of about thirty-five thousand dollars. It is of the Corinthian order, of large dimensions, being one hundred and thirty feet in length, sixtyeight in breadth, and fifty-nine in height. The

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