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

tleman that ever saw. Mrs. Bingham,
of Phila lelphia, used to send him invi-
tations to her parties, and he often went
from New York to that city to them?-|
Yet he was neither debauched, nor dissi.
pated. He was regular, studious, above
low company Of any sort, s'the great vul-
gar or the smal;" his 'apparel," accor-
ding to Lord Bnrleigh's advice, was
.'costly, not fine;" and you might see in
his old attendant, Syphax, whom he car
ried with him to New York, that his
master was gentleman. Columbia
College was not yet recovered from the
shock of the revolution; it was just en-
crying out Of chaos.-The Professor of
Humanity, (Cochrane. now in the col
Eege Of Nova Sco,ia,) was an Irishman,
educated at frInIry SotIcgc, arr IIios.'
accomplished scholar. With him en-.
tered as private pupil. paying eight dol
lars month, tout Of my own allowance
for clothes, &c.) for the privilege. I de
voted the fall vacation at Princeton, (l787O
to an attempt at regaining my Greek, and
now July, 1881 burning with the thirst
of knowledge, (Which was not, permit
ted to Stake at the forntain Of Nassau,
and emulous Of literary distinction, sat
seriously to work, and was greatly en-.
couraged by my tutor, who was. or afiec.
ted to be, amazed at the rapidity Of my
progress. Tom irreparable loss, he
left college about two or three months
after had entered myself as his private
pupil. Your fathers return to Virginia
left me without friend. "Where," you
will ask, was my uncle Theodorick? Alas!
my poor brother differed in every respect
| from your noble father. or all things
in the world he detested most book.
Devoted to pleasure and ''fun," as he
termed it. he not only set me bad ex-
ample, but, with his dissolute compan-
IONS, abs ,lutely prevented me from rca-
ding. Often have they forced the door
Of my study, and tossed the books over
the floor, sometimes out Of the window.
In two years, he undermined his con-
stitution, and destroyed his health for
ever; and after lingering long time a
mere skeleton of himself, he died at Bi.
zarre, just before the birth of your bro
, Their st. George. My guardain--for un
! der the impulse OF the ascendancy he hat
acquired over me, I had chosen Mr.. Tuck
| err as such-was so scanty in his supplies
: that became necesstous; of course, un
+, happy; and (why should l conceal it?
!: gradually fell into the habits and way o
: life ofmy unfortunate brother.-with thi
!. difference, that continued to read, Blu
4 books of amusement only, cnervating ant
almost destroying my intellectual pow
crs, and vitiating my taste. Your fathe
d was married on tke last day of the yea
n 1899; and in the summer following, Theo
! derrick and left New York for Virgin
: ia.
d In consequence of my mothers death
i her husband left Matoax, to reside il
$ Wiliamsburgh; where Edmund Ran
: dolph, Just appointed Attorney Genera
e of the U. States, at that time lived. HI
II proposed to Mr.. Tucker, that l shout
r, study law under him; accordingly wen
!, to Philadelphia in the month OF Septen
- Der, 1870, the year of the removal c
:. Congress from New York Il had see
1t the old Congress expire, and the new on
,e rise like Phenix from its ashes. sa'
,r the coronation (such in fact 1t was)
of General Washington i'll 1889, and hear
lie Ames and Madison, when they first too
y their seats on the floor of the House {
~ Representatives. Congress met at Phi
a
w much engrosscd by politics and his ov
ad necessities to think OF me. He too er
ce bezzled the funds which Mr.. Tucker e
n trusted to him for my use. Had tn
NV been faithfully applied. they were mad
' - quate to my decent support-only 81
nd per annum.
a. For what cause know not, MIR. Ra
ers dolph put mo my hands, by way OF p
his narration for course, of law, Hume's n
X ,apbvsical works. had great props
Gu sity for that sort Of reading. &C
OF duct and conversation of Mr.. Tuck
us' and his friends, such as Colonel Jon
~, and Beverly Randolph, (every other VIC
70 AN oath) had early in life led me to
me gard religion as the imposition OF prize
en-. craft. | soon became a deist; and,
ing consequence, an atheist. { | shudder viii
is,t | write it; although my intentions "!
sell pure, and was honestly seeking at
le'' truth say Shy consequence, beca'
10. I am convinced that deism necessar
,hc leads, by the fairest induction to I
en- conclusion. My late friend Joseph Br,
-" was placed by Major Pierce Butler, 4
-, in the Senate from South Carolina, a
ar under the direction of Mr.. Randolph
acts read law The Attorney General mad
Tote office, and we were to READ al our ROC
ohm such books as he pointed out. Al
i'm getting almost through the first book
ling RI,rLs,one. BRYAN and myself abandon
ga a profession, for which neither OF US
'' W., been qualified by regular education
.nch commenced men Of pleasurc-plung
ton, into the "gaiety that MIS- ,ne MY"
Then blasphemy, the heart WIN woe ~
little lv, 1892, | returned to Virginia, u