Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-13

my little hands, repeated after ny mother the Lord's
Prayer aud the "Belef" and TO this circunstance at
uibu'o some OF my present opinions say present. be-
cause they lay long dormant, and il exngushed with
the autumn of the year 1885, my mother married ST
George Tucker: From tina, day there was change in
this insisnce, was sent at the ave of
nine the school Of Walker Murray (who had been his
fellow student a, Cocge) in the county OF Orange; then
and perhaps yet Wild aud savage country Inhabited by
the coarscs the most ignorant and vicious the human
race new world was opened to me. Our school fell
lows, your father and uncle Thcodorck the
SCHOOL, were with the exception OF genemens
sous" adopts IN every species OF proigaey-vulgsr. bru-
We had scarcely the necessities Of life !;
whou, an opportunity TO acquire any thing than
much Latin az sufced TO furnish out bald Translation
OF me ordinary school books. Your father
hardly thirteen years DID, determined to desert and go
home.
Murray transferred his school to Williamsburg and we
transferred along with it, In 1884, the state oi my
he induced my mother send me to Bermuda where
arrived in the month tJuy; aud just twelve months az
forwards she came over with her whole family, and re-
manned I'LL November, 1855; when she long
ana coseiou passage, In wretched soop, TO Virginia
This laid the foundation OF that disease which deprived
man had.
My sojour"in Bermuda Of essential service to me
IN many respects
Ir.
house. where stad and here read many s,er-
ling English authors Your father and myself were al
ways book worms was sort Of bond to the affection
that united us Our first question at meeting, was ge
Morally, "what have you read ?Hdve YOU seen this or
that work - BY going TO Bermuda, however. lost my
Greek; had just mastered the grammar perf ct{u wb,
left Wiliiamsburgh-Wa round the base IN yas
circular iron railing that protected W Lord Boteourt's
statue, had committed tho Westminster grammar to
memory, so as to be abo repeat every word of it, The
pendulum OF the great clock which vibratcd over my
head seemed TO concentrate my attention my book.
My Bcrmudian tutor, Ewing, had no Greek class aud
would not take the trouble Of teaching a single bow
Alter our RETURN we went back 10 Wilamshurgh: your
father continuing TO board with Murray but atendinp
Mr. wy'he in Greek. Mathematics, and think Latin al
so Soon afterwards he entered college We were At the
grammar school kept in the old capitol, which ha. been
since pulled down. tho expense of repairing The
hail. where Henry poke aud Independence was declsr,
brother Theolock drove him from the school (our mo.
ther was then in New York for her hoalh and soon af
ter, left it. Having spent some months at home we
(Theoderick and mysclD were sent in March 1887 10
Princeton where joined in the summer by YOUR
father Doct Wiiherspoon, put Theodorck and myself
into the grammar school, although were further adj.
vanced than any oil the freshmen most of tie Sopho-
mores In this subterranean abode of and msruIe
was pent Tor five long months, and in September was
transferred 10 the college, with habits acquired in that
school by no means propous to study. AT Christmas
Thcodorick and went to New York. 10 spend what liz
tie money we had boarded for the purpose;
and were recalled in few days by letter from YOUR
ia'h'r enclosing one from mother, which summoned
nd
her Tor the last time. In January 1885, she died The
.unrose and set the river flowed the order of nature
went on IN seemed 10 at first unna ural and shock
ing. My mother hal been faithful executrix of nv
fathers will, faithful steward OF the effects committed
TO her charge in us' for her children She left clear ac
toune and money (no, small sum) in hand in May
7SS hecdorick and were sent TO college in New York;
and your Iaher came here attend the debates of the
Convention, the question Of adopting or rejecting the
federal constitution Of 1897 This gave rise TO the
attachment between himself and your mother which
u eioh fbs nar
wards.
Your father Joined us in New York He was in his
nineteenth year, and the most manly youth and most ee
CANT gentleman that ever saw Mrs. Bingham of phi
adelphia, used 10 send him invitations her parties and
ne oien went from New York 10 that city to them Yet
he was neither debauched nor dssipated. He was resu
lar studious, above low company of any Sort the great
vulgar or the all-his APPAREL according TO Lord
bureisns advice was costly, not fine ;; and you might
see IN MS old attendant, Syphax whom he carried with
him to New York, that his master gentleman. Co.
iumha College was not yet from the shock of
The Revolution; it was Just emerging of chaos The
Professor OF Humanity, Cochrane in the College of
Nova Scoa) was an irshman, educated at Trinity Col.
iege Dublin, and an accomplished scholar. With him
entered as private pupil, paying eight dollars month
Cont Of my allowance for clothes Sc for the nri
viege had devoted the full vacation al Princeton
G7S1) to an attempt at regaining my Creek and now
guy, 1852 burning with the thirst of KNOWLEDGE
(which was not permitted 10 slake at the fountain
OF Nassau,) AMI emulous of literary distinction I sat
seriously 10 work. and was greatly encouraged by my
tutor who was, or affected TO be, amazed the rapidy
oil my progress 10 my irreparale loss, he left College
about two three months after had entered myself as
his private pupil Your fathers return TO Virginia left me
wihou friend "Where, you will ask, "was my uncle
Thcodorick Alas! my poor brother differed in eyerv
respect from your noble father OF all things i'm the world
he detested most book Devoted pleasure and fn
as he lermedlt he not only bad example but with
his dssolute companions absolutely prevented me from
reading Often have they forced the door OF my study and
tossed the books the floor sometimes the wnoo
In Two years, he undermined his constitution
his health forever and after lingering long time me re-
skeleton OF himst Ii, he died at Bizarre lust before the
birth oil your brother, ST. George My guardan-for I'M
der the Impulse OF the ascendancy he had acquired over
me, had chosen Mr. Tucker as such-was so scanty in
MS supplies that became necesous of course unhappy
and (wy should concealo gradually fell into the habits
anu way oil Lille OF my unfortunate brother-with this diff
terence, that continued to read but books OF
only, enervating and almost destroying my intellectual
powers and Whaling my taste. Your father was married
on the last day OF the year 1885, and in the summer fol-
lowing, Thcodorck and Ileft New York for Virginia I'm
consequence Of my mothers death, her husband left
Matoax TO reside in Wliamsburgh, where Edmund RAN
dolph, just appointed Attorney General OF the United
States at that time lived He proposed Mr. Tucker
Philadelphia in the month of September $780, the wear
oil The removal OF Congress from New York had seen
me old Congress EXPIRE and the new one rise like
PhGnix from its ashes. the coronation (such in
fact 1t was) OF General Washington, in 1885, and heard
ames and Madison, when they first took their seats on the
Phadephia, and Mr. Randolph was too much enero,sed
by politics and his own necessities, TO think Of me-
For what cause know not, Mr. Randolph nut into nv
hands, by way OF preparation for of law Hume's
metaphysical works | had great propensity for that
sort Of reading The conduct and conversation of
had early in life led 10 regard religion as the mpos.
ton oil prisstcrsh. soon became des and by eonse-
quenee an atheist shuddsr whilst write IL; although