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I'VE give, - 90 lssdisg ssicie for ME evening.
she suse-biegrspAsesl issser e The Lar John Rss-
doiph, % Hossoke-onistiag sooe few expres-
sioss u hsrsheess. which might, perhaps, wound
the feeling: q ssrviviag rsisaioas In Virgins. -
Vas written In ISIS. % HE nephev, Who
afterwards died-vc believe, IN knrlsad. a
vss never intended for the pubiie eve by the
writer, bot With the very few omissions vc have
made, cssnot perceive The least objection 20 il.
Pubheseoa. The Aiss q Dv. WisAcrspoon, wiII
y. il Vas obviously the malignant p~so,eoce Of
. school boy thvsrted in his purposes by being
restrsioed In his pocket moncy,-it IL Asun,
daily repeated Ia the case of every similar euar-
dian Probably the charges against MIR Tucker
and Edmund Raadolph are no better founded
NJ i. CommercioL
pEcEAs4x IL, 1919.
| You shaH "know something Of my Iife,' ~
nay, every thing. my dear son, that Il can be
desirable or profitable Cor you to know. II
Is tale not devoid Of interest or events, and
might DO wrought up into Q moro engaging
narrative, than ninety-uine out Of hundred
Of the hasty volumes which minister 10 Ae
mental green sickness Of cur misses and mas
ters Like YOURSELF I was LEFT BY my father
an orphan, when too young TO be sensible OF
my loss. The first thing that can romem-
Der, Is, finding myself in my mothers family,
the piN-saskef Of tho whole house. think
that can rec5licct some circumstances tina,
must have happened ia l776; but I distinctly
remember events which took place in The
year following. ! shared my mothers wi
lowed bed. and was the nesting Of her bo-
som. Every night after was addressed, and
IN the morning before rose, I knecled down
IN my bed, and putting up my little hands, re-
peafed after my mother the Lords prayer
and the "belief;" and 10 this circumstance I
attribute some Of my present opinions. !
say present, because they lay long dormant,
and as il extinguishcd within me-
In the autumn Of the year I7s3, nv mother
married st. George Tucker. From that day
there was change in my situation. The first
blow that I ever received, was from the hand
| oil This man. and not a week after his union
with my mother. At his instance, was sent
at the age OF mine TO the school OF Walker
Murray, (who had been his fellow student AZ
CoiicgeD in the county Of Orange then, and
perhaps yet, wild and savage country. in
habited by the coarsest, the most ignorant aud
vicious Of the human race A new world W as
opened to me. Our schooi-feilows, (your IA
ther and uncle Theodorick were at the same
SCHOOL, were, with the exception Of one or
, two ssniis,n<n'. sons, adopts in every species
OF pro8igacy,-vulgar, brutal, savage. Our
schoolmaster was the most petuIent and ma
l,gnant wretch 10 creation. We had scarcely
the necessaries OF life without an opportu.
nity 10 acquire any thing more than rs much
Latin, as suftced 10 furnish out bald trans
iation Of the ordinary school books. Indig-
dignant Mt his treatment, your father. hardly
thirteen years old, determined to desert and
go home. From our step-father, we looked
Tor nothing like sympathy or tenderness
Ny brother was deferred by his expostula-
lions from executing his purpose. Murray
transferred his school 20 Williamsburgh, and
TIA far l.l- ..sl "a
the state OF my health induced my mother 10
send me to Bermuda, where arrived in July:
and just twelve months afterwards, she came
over with her whole farnily, and remained
hu November, 1855; whom she encountered
long and boisterous passage, In a wretohed
sloop, TO Virginia. This laid the foundation 10
that disease, which deprived me, two wears az
forwards, of the best mother thnt ever man had.
NY sojourn at Bermuda was Of essential
service 10 me in many respects. II was n re-
spite from the austere rule Of my step-father,
and the tyranny, hardly tolcrable, of Murray;
and acquired temper not TO brook tamcjy
their unreasonable exactions. Ther. vas q
good country gentlsmans library In old Mr.
fuckers house, where I staid and here I
read many sterling English authors. Your
ia'her and myself were always book-worms.
u was sort Of o bond 10 the affection thai
united as. Our first question at meeting, was
generally, "what have You readin Have
you seen this or that WORT 20 By going to
Bermuda, however, lost my Greek; I had
Just mastered the grammar peyfef,v, when
len wiliiamsburgh. Walking round the base
OF Lord Botetourt's statue, had committed
the Westminster grammar TO memory, SO as
to repeat every word Of il. The pendulum OF
the great clock which vibratsd over my head,
seemed TO concentrate my attention on INV
book. My BermudiaD tutor, Ewing, had no
Greek class, and would not take the trouble
OF teaching single boy.
Alter our return, we went back 20 williams
ourgh; your father continuing 10 board with
Murray, but attending Mr.. Wythe In Greek.
Mathematics, and think Latin also. Soon
afterwards he entered College. We were At
the grammar school kept In the old capitol,
which has been since pulled down, 70 save
the expense Of repairing the hall where Hen
~ spoke, and Independence was declared
The shocking barbarity Of Murray towards nv
orother Theodorick, drove him from the
school, (our mother was then In New York
for her health, and soon after, I left it
Having spent some months at home, we (The-
oderick and MYSELF were sent in March.
lIeI, to PrineetOn, where we wero Joined IN
the summer BY Jour father. Doctor Wither-
spoon, IN order 10 make the most out Of US.
put FhSodorick and myself into the grammar
school, although we were further advanced
than any Of the freshmen or most Of the So
Ph0mores. In this subterranean abode Of
noise and misrule, I was pent for Eve long
months, aud IN September was transferred 10
the college, with habits acquired in that
school, by no means propitious 20 study. At
Christmas ,Theodoriek and I went 70 N. York.
TO spend what little money We had boarded Tor
That purposes (lItiie Il was since w ilherspoons
necessities drove him 60 embezzle our fundsO
and were recalled, IN G few days, by
letter from Jour father, enclosing one from
our mother, which summoned Us 10 her diving
bedside We fastened home, and saw her
IoF The last time. IN January, 1853, she died.
The sen rose and set the rivers flowed !;
We order OF nature went on. This seemed 20
ne ~ hrst unnatural and shocking. ny mo-
Wet had been faithful suecutFix Of nv
la'hers viii, faithful steward Of the Effects
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