Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-13

I after my mother the Lords prayer and the
''belief;" and to this circumstance I attribute
some of my present opinions. say Present,
because they lay long dormant, and as if ex-
tinguished within mes
In the autumn Of the year 1888, my moth
err married St. George Tucker. From that
day there was change in my situation. The
first blow that ever received was from the
hand of this man, and not week after his
union with my mother. At his instance, !
was sent at the age of nine to the school of
Walker Murray, (who had been his fellow
student at college, in the county of Orange;
then, and perhaps yet, wild and savage
country, Inhabited by the coarsest, the most
ignorant, and vicious of the human race! A
new world was opened to me.-Our school
fellows, (Your father and Uncle Theodorck
wern at the same schooi) where. with the ex-
ceptinr. -one or TWO yenffenens Sons,
adopts, in every species Of profigacy-vul-
/ gar, brutal, savage. Our schoolmaster was
the most pctulent and malignant wretch IN
creation. We had scarcely the necessarics
of life; without an opportunity to acquire any
thing more than as much Latin, as sufficient
TO furnish cut bald translation of the ordina-
~ school books. Indignant at his treatment,
your father, hardly thirteen years old, deter
mined to desert and so home. From our
step-father we looked for nothing like sympa-
thy or tenderness. My brother was deter
mined by his representations for executing his
purpose, Murray transferred his school to
Williamsburgh, and we were transferred
along with it. In 1884. the state OF my health
induced my mother to send me to Bermuda,
where / arrived in the month of July; and
lust twelve months afterwards, she came over
with her whole family, and remained till
Nov 1888; when she encountered long and
boisterous passage, in a wretchcd sloop OF
Il f,sI fpt,, Hat nj huf
disease, which deprived me, two years after
wards of the best mother that ever man had.
NV soiourn in Bermuda was of essential
service to me in many respects. 1t was a
respite from the austere rule Of my step-fa-
Their, and the tyranny, hardly tolerable, OF
Murray; and acquired temper not TO brook
tamely their unreasonable exactions. There
was good country gentleman's library in old
Mr.. fuckers house, where stald; and here
l read many sterling English authors. Your
father and myself were always book worms.
e 1t was sort of bond to the affection that uni
ted u.s. Our first question at meeting, was,
generally, s'What have you read? Have you
seen this or that work." By going to Bermu
da, however, lost my Greek; l had JUS
mastered the grammar perfect when lief
Williamsburgh. Walking round the base
lit was circular iron railing that protected
Hi. \ of Lord Botetourt's statue, had commit
ted the Westminster grammar to memory
so as to be able to repeat every word OF II
The pendulum of the great clock which vi
brated over my head, seemed to concentrate
my attention on my book Mr. Bermuda
tutor, Ewing, had no Greek class,,and wou
not take the trouble of teaching single boy.
After our return, we went back to VIII
Iamsburg, your father continuing to boar
with Murray, but attending Mr.. Wythe i
ds Greek, Mathematics, and l think Latin al
so. Soon afterwards he entcre college. w
were at the grammar scnool kept in the oil
capitol, which has been since pulled down
to save the expense OF repairing the hall
where Henry spoke and independence wa
Is declared. The shocking barbarity of Muir
ray towards my brother Iheodorck' drov
him from the school, (our mother was the
in New York for her health,) and soon atte'
left it. Having spent some months at home
we (rheodorick and myself) were sent
March, 1887, to Princeton, where we we'
Joined in the summer by your father. III
Witherspoon in order to make the most OF
of us, put Theodorck and myself into I'll
grammar school, although we were turths
III, advanced than any of the freshmen OF most
the Sophamores. In this subterraneous aooe
= of noise and misrule, was pent for five lor
months, and in September was transferred
the college, with habits acquired IN tn
school by no means propitious to study. 4
Christmas, Thcodorick and went TO nc
York, to spend what little money we h
boarded for that purpose; (little 1t was, SIN
Witherspoon's necessities drove him 10 et
~. bezzle our funds;) and were recalled III fe
NV DAYS by a letter from your father, enclos'
30 one from our mother, which summoned us
10 her dying bedside, We fastened home, a
e.. saw her for the last time. In January, ne
. ioa she died. The sun rose and set; the riv
tn A. sc ont |
,'m seemed to me at first unnatural and shoc
OH OH ing My mother had been faithful exc,
VIII trix of my fathers will, faithful steward
all the effects committed to her charge, III TT
naht for her children She left clear acconr
', ,. and money mot small sum- i'll hand
ms Nav. 1888, Theo dorick and | were sent
u ~, ~ college in New York; and your father Ca
ANY on here to attend the debates OF the Conv'
iohu ton, on the question OF adopting or reject
the federal constitution of 1887. rms
gave rise TO the attachment between NM
s. and your mo her, which terminated in tl
fe, marriage about eighteen months atterwar0
! De Your father Joined us i'll New 70
1t He was in his nineteenth year, ana
ana most manly youth. and most elegant
g'ng
,,a .1'his letter was written it will be perez
mos. ed before Mr.. Randolphs supposed conv
,ther SION. As i,ius.ia.i.e w. .'Ia'H;n, ar.c,
.o,, from the S. S. Journal:-"lhe late J
,,;l, Randolph, some years since, addressed y
i;n,t self to an intimate friend in terms sometf
That like the following: y used to be Gale
nctly Frcnchman' ue.ause = NJ, M ,,,os rn;nS,
the in politios' a"a ,nouS" , us n.ar Ere
osom. atheist II h,u ny 49, ~ &c ~ ,;ne VI
~ VIZ ,, dan,r,ed mother used to take my