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| | 201 | Author: | Woods
Edgar | Add | | | Title: | Albemarle County in Virginia  | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The settlement of Virginia was a slow and gradual process.
Plantations were for the most part opened on the
water courses, extending along the banks of the James, and
on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
It was more than a century after the landing at Jamestown
before white men made the passage of the Blue Ridge. As
soon as that event was noised abroad, it was speedily followed
up, and in the space of the next twenty years the tide
of population had touched the interior portions of the colony,
one stream pushing westward from the sea coast, and
another rolling up the Shenandoah Valley from the wilds of
Pennsylvania. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 203 | Author: | Charlottesville (Va.) | Add | | | Title: | Charter, ordinances and by-laws of the town of Charlottesville, Va. | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That so much of
the land as lies and is contained within the following boundary: Beginning at
a stone on the north side of Alexander Garrett's lane, thence with said lane
south sixty-nine and one-half degrees east, fourteen, twenty-eight poles to the
west side of Merewether's mill road; thence with said road north thirty degrees
east twenty-one, twenty poles; thence crossing said road south sixty-seven
and one-half degrees east, thirty-four, forty poles to a fence between James
Minor and A. J. Farish; thence north thirty-one and one-half degrees east, fifteen,
forty-four poles to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad; thence with said
road south eighty degrees east seventeen, twenty eight poles; thence north
fourteen degrees east, about eighteen, forty-four poles to the entrance of Goodman's
lane, on the south side of the turnpike; thence along the south margin
of said turnpike south sixty-one and three-fourths degrees east, eighty-two and
one-third poles to a point opposite the southwest corner of Thomas L. Farish's
lawn; thence crossing the turnpike road and following the fence of said lawn
north twenty-eight and one-half degrees east, thirty-six poles to a white oak
ree opposite said Farish's house; thence north thirty-one and one-fourth degrees
east, twenty-five to a point near the northwest corner of the said Farish's
garden: thence in a line parallel to the east line of the Institute lot, and
running north twenty-four and one half degrees east, fifty and one half poles,
crossing the free bridge road, to a point on the north side of said road; thence
following the north margin said road south eighty-five degrees west, ninety-six
and one fourth poles to a point opposite the northeast corner of the Anderson
lot, in the present corporation line; thence with said line north ten and one
fourth degrees west to the corner of the graveyard wall, next to the old brickyard;
thence in the direction of a poplar tree in the corner of the old brick-yard
lot north twenty one and one fourth degrees east, twenty-six twenty poles to a
stone set in a field; thence crossing the old brick-yard, and with the south side
of the street leading to Park street, north seventy-four degrees west, forty-eight,
sixty-four poles to a stake corner to Shelton F. Leake's; thence north seventy-three
degrees west, eighty-four forty-four poles to a stone in Mrs. Gilmer's field;
thence south thirty-six and one fourth degrees west to a stone in the field, thirty-five,
fifty-six poles; thence south twenty-eight degrees west to a stone in B.
C. Flannagan's field forty-eight, sixty-four poles; thence south eighty-three degrees
west, fifty-six poles to Verinda West's corner; thence up the road south
seventeen degrees west thirteen, twelve poles; thence north seventy degrees
west, twenty-five poles to a stone set in a field at the back of Mrs. Digg's lot;
thence south twenty degrees west, twenty-eight, eighty poles to a locust tree in
Mrs. Reyburn's; thence with the same course sixteen poles to a stake in James
M. Hodge's lot, near the house; thence south sixty-nine and one half degrees
east, twenty-two, twenty poles to Minerva Kenney's, to a stake in the fence near
the kitchen; thence north thirty degrees east, six, twenty-eight poles to Alexander
Garrett's lane by the railroad; thence with the said line when completed,
south sixty-nine and one half degrees east, one hundred and thirty-eight, seventy-six
poles to the beginning (being nearly the same limits as are prescribed in
section one of an act passed fourteenth March, eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled
an act to amend the charter and extend the corporate limits of the town
of Charlottesville) shall be and is hereby made a town corporate, by the name
and style of the Town of Charlottesville; and by that name shall sue and be
sued, and shall have and exercise all the powers and be subject to all the provisions
of the Code of Virginia, except so far as may be herein otherwise provided. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 204 | Author: | Bruce
William Cabell
1860-1946 | Add | | | Title: | John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833 | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "I thank you for your good advice in your letter to Mamma,
but I am such a perverse boy that I wish I had a tutor to make
me mind my book as I cannot help wishing to play when it is
time to read. I want to learn everything, but I cannot love
confinement; and what is worse, the more I play the more I
want to play; but I am sure when I go regularly to school I
shall not be behind my brothers. Brother Hal is much cleverer
than sister for his age though she is much improved in talking
and walking. We are all wanting to see you; I was never so
rejoiced as when we got your letter to leave Roanoke. I am
my dear papa yr. dutyfull son "I take this oppty of letting you know that we are all well
and that I missed my ague at Roanoke. Mama and Mrs.
Hartston hung up Abracadabra as a charm for that and to keep
away the enemy. Sister is worth a dozen of what she was when
you left her. She says anything and runs about all day. I
hope you are in favour with the Marquis. I don't doubt it,
for I think you a very fine officer and will be able to make the
militia fight, for if they do not now I don't think they ever will
be collected after running away. Brother Dicky has turned
me back from the optitive of amo to the potential mood of
audio because Mr. Hearn never taught me. I thank you my
dr papa for telling me in your letter to be a good boy and mind
my book. I do love my book and mind it as much as I can
myself, but we want a tutor very much. I hope in a month I
shall be passing my Concords. I will try all I can to be a good
boy and a favourite of Mama's and when you come home I
hope I shall be one of yours. "You have doubtless, my ever dear and affectionate Papa,
received Accounts of the Adoption of the new Constitution by
the State of New York; the majority consisting of five only.
On Wednesday 26th inst. (4 days previous to our hearing of
the ratification of this State), there was a very grand Procession
in this city (on account of its being received by ten States)
which proceeded from the plain before Bridewell down Broadway
thro' Wall Street; and, by the way of Great Queen Street,
proceeded to the Federal Green before Bunker's Hill, where
there were tables set for more than five thousand people to
Dine. Two Oxen were roasted whole and several cows and
Sheep. I'll assure [you], my dear Sir, it put me in mind of the
great Preparations which were made in Don Quixote for the
wedding of Camacho and the rich and the fair Quiteria. There
were ten tables set out to represent the ten States which had
acceded to the Constitution; all which were concentered together
at one end, like the sticks of a Fan; where they joined
were seated all the Congress with the President in the middle.
The Procession was very beautiful and well conducted. Every
trade and profession had a Colour emblematical of it. The
chief of the Bakers were drawn on a stage, on which they were
seen mixing their bread; the apprentices, all in white, followed
with ready-baked Cakes. The Coopers followed, making
barrels, and the apprentices followed with a keg under the arm
of each. Next came the Brewers, bringing hogsheads of beer
along with a little Bacchus astride a Cask, holding a large
Goblet in his hand. It would require too much time for me to
tell you of all the different occupations, but, to the honor of
New York, be it spoken that, among 8000 people, who were
said to have dined together on the green, there was not a single
Drunken Man or fight to be seen. On Saturday, the 27th
Inst., news arrived of the Constitution's being adopted. A
party of Federalists, as they call themselves, went to the house
VOL. I—8
of Mr. Greenleaf, printer of the Patriotic Register, and, after
having broken his windows and thrown away his Types (much
to their discredit), went to the Governor's, where they gave
three hisses, and beat the rogue's march around the house.
They proceeded to the houses of the Federals (as they call
them) and gave three cheers."1
1N. Y. Pub. Lib.
"You will no doubt, my ever dear Father, be much astonished
when I tell you that, by the time you receive this, I
shall be far on my return to Williamsburg; and you will be yet
more surprised at hearing that I mean to spend the summer in
one of the Northern States. Since I saw you, I have been informed
that the late horrid and malicious lie, which has been
for some time too freely circulated, has been, by the diligent
exertion of those timid enemies (whom I have not been able by
any insult to force to an interview) so impressed, during my
absence, on the minds of every one, that a public enquiry into
it is now more than ever necessary. Having endeavored, by
every method I could devise, to bring William Randolph [one
of Nancy's brothers] to a personal explanation of his conduct,
and to give me personal satisfaction for his aspersions of my
character, and finding that no insult is sufficient to rouse his
feelings (if he has any), I have at last urged Col. Tom to bring
an action of slander against him. This will bring the whole
affair once more before the eyes of every one, the circumstances,
from beginning to end, of the persons accusing and
accused will be seen at once, and the villainy of my traducers
fully exposed. When this is done, I shall once more know the
blessing of a tranquil mind! . . . "I received your letter of the 13th inst. this morning. You
must be equally conscious with myself that the idea of representing
this district in Congress never originated with me;
and I believe I may with truth assert that it is one which I
never should have entertained, had it not been suggested, in
the first instance, by my friends. I am now as well satisfied,
as I was when you first made to me the proposal of permitting
my friends to declare my willingness to serve my fellow-citizens
in the House of Representatives, that it is an office to which I
can not rationally entertain the smallest pretensions. I,
therefore, willingly resign any which my friends may have formed
for me to any person whom they may approve, and
shall feel happy in giving my vote—interest I have none, and
did I possess any, my principles would forbid my using it on
such an occasion—to a man for whose character I entertain so
high an opinion as that which I have borne ever since my acquaintance
with him for Citizen Daniel's. When I was in
Amelia, I wrote to Citizen Venable, informing him briefly of the
authentic report of his intended resignation, and also that some
of my friends had proposed taking a vote for me. This I was
impelled to do by my sense of propriety, since to me it appeared
highly indelicate that such a thing should be even whispered
before he was informed that it was in agitation. Accept Citizen
my most sincere regards and believe me with truth your friend. "Having stated the facts, it would be derogatory to your
character for me to point out the remedy. So far as they
relate to this application, addressed to you in a public capacity,
they can only be supposed by you to be of a public nature.
VOL. I—11
It is enough for me to state that the independence of the
Legislature has been attacked and the majesty of the people,
of which you are the principal representative, insulted and
your authority contemned. In their name, I demand that a
provision, commensurate with the evil, be made, and which
will be calculated to deter others from any future attempts to
introduce the Reign of Terror into our country. In addressing
you in this plain language of man, I give you, Sir, the best
proof I can afford of the estimation in which I hold your office
and your understanding; and I assure you with truth that I am
with respect your fellow citizen, John Randolph. "Seven times we have balloted—eight states for J—six for
Burr—two, Maryland and Vermont divided; voted to postpone
for an hour the process; now half past four resumed—
result the same. The order against adjourning made with a
view to Mr. Nicholson, who was ill, has not operated. He left
his sick bed—came through a snow storm—brought his bed,
and has prevented the vote of Maryland from being given to
Burr. Mail closing. "To the Freeholders of Charlotte, Prince Edward, Buckingham
and Cumberland: Fellow Citizens: I dedicate to you
the following fragment. That it appears in its present
mutilated shape is to be ascribed to the successful usurpation
which has reduced the freedom of speech in one branch of the
American Congress to an empty name. It is now established
for the first time and in the person of your representative that the
House may and will refuse to hear a member in his place, or
even to receive a motion from him upon the most momentous
subject that can be presented for legislative decision. A
similar motion was brought forward by the Republican minority
in the year 1798 before these modern inventions for stifling
the freedom of debate were discovered. It was discussed as a
matter of right until it was abandoned by the mover in consequence
of additional information (the correspondence of our
envoy at Paris) laid before Congress by the President. In
`the reign of terror' the father of the Sedition Law had not
the hardihood to proscribe liberty of speech, much less the
right of free debate on the floor of Congress. This invasion
of the public liberties was reserved for self-styled Republicans
who hold your understandings in such contempt as to flatter
themselves that you will overlook their every outrage upon
the great first principles of free government in consideration of
their professions of tender regard for the privileges of the
people. It is for you to decide whether they have undervalued
your intelligence and spirit or whether they have formed a just
estimate of your character. You do not require to be told that
the violation of the rights of him, whom you have deputed to
represent you, is an invasion of the rights of every man of you,
of every individual in society. If this abuse be suffered to pass
unredressed—and the people alone are competent to apply the
remedy—we must bid adieu to a free form of government
forever. Having learned from various sources that a declaration
of war would be attempted on Monday next with closed
doors, I deemed it my duty to endeavor by an exercise of my
constitutional functions to arrest this heaviest of all calamities
and avert it from our happy country. I accordingly made the
effort of which I now give you the result, and of the success of
which you will have already been informed before these pages
can reach you. I pretend only to give you the substance of my
unfinished argument. The glowing words, the language of the
heart have passed away with the occasion that called them
forth. They are no longer under my control. My design
is simply to submit to you the views which have induced me to
consider a war with England, under existing circumstances, as
comporting neither with the interest nor the honor of the
American people; but as an idolatrous sacrifice of both on the
altar of French rapacity, perfidy and ambition. For so, without ceremony, permit me to
call you. Among the few causes that I find for regret at my
dismissal from public life, there is none in comparison with
the reflection that it has separated me—perhaps forever—from
some who have a strong hold on my esteem and on my affections.
It would indeed have been gratifying to me to see once
more yourself, Mr. Meade [Rev. Wm. Meade, of Virginia],
Ridgely [Andrew Sterrett Ridgely], and some few others; and
the thought that this may never be is the only one that infuses
any thing of bitterness into what may be termed my disappointment,
if a man can be said to be disappointed when
things happen according to his expectations. On every other
account, I have cause of self-congratulation at being disenthralled
from a servitude at once irksome and degrading.
The grapes are not sour—you know the manner in which you
always combated my wish to retire. Although I have not, like
you, the spirit of a martyr, yet I could not but allow great
force to your representations. To say the truth, a mere sense
of my duty alone might have been insufficient to restrain me
from indulging the very strong inclination which I have felt for
many years to return to private life. It is now gratified in a
way that takes from me every shadow of blame. No man can
reproach me with the desertion of my friends, or the abandonment
of my post in a time of danger and of trial. `I have
fought the good fight, I have kept the faith.' I owe the public
nothing; my friends, indeed, are entitled to everything at my
hands; but I have received my discharge, not indeed honestam
dimissionem, but passable enough, as times go, when delicacy
is not over-fastidious. I am again free, as it respects the
public at least, and have but one more victory to achieve to be
so in the true sense of the word. Like yourself and Mr. Meade,
I cannot be contented with endeavoring to do good for goodness'
sake, or rather for the sake of the Author of all goodness.
In spite of me, I cannot help feeling something very like contempt
for my poor foolish fellow-mortals, and would often
consign them to Bonaparte in this world, and the devil, his
master, in the next; but these are but temporary fits of misanthropy,
which soon give way to better and juster feelings."1
1Garland, v. 2, 11.
Your letter being addressed to Farmville,
did not reach me until yesterday, when my nephew
brought it up. Charlotte Court House is my post-office. By
my last you will perceive that I have anticipated your kind
office in regard to my books and papers at Crawford's. Pray
give them protection `until the Chesapeake shall be fit for
service.' It is, I think, nearly eight years since I ventured to
play upon those words in a report of the Secretary of the
Navy. I have read your letter again and again, and cannot
express to you how much pleasure the perusal has given me. "Your letter of the 14th was received today—many thanks
for it. By the same mail, Mr. Quincy sent me a copy of his
speech of the 30th of last month. It is a composition of much
ability and depth of thought; but it indicates a spirit and a
temper to the North which is more a subject of regret than of
surprise. The grievances of Lord North's administration
were but as a feather in the scale, when compared with those
inflicted by Jefferson and Madison."2
2Ibid., 14.
You lay me under obligations which I know
not how to requite, and yet I cannot help requesting a continuance
of them. I have been highly gratified today by the
receipt of your letter of the 5th, and the accompanying pamphlet.
I have read them both with deep attention, and with a
melancholy pleasure which I should find it difficult to describe.
You are under some misapprehension respecting my opinions
in regard to certain men and measures—the true sources of our
present calamities. They are not materially, if at all, variant
from your own. It is time indeed to speak out; but, if, as I
fear, the canine race in New York have returned to their
vomit, the voice of truth and of patriotism will be as the voice
of one crying in the wilderness. I feel most sensibly
the difficulties of our situation, but the question is as to the
remedy. "You will perceive by the enclosed letter, in case the fact
shall have failed to reach you through any other channel, that
the enemies whom it has been my lot to make in the discharge
of the duties of the station, to which I had been called by the
public suffrage, seem unwilling to allow me even the repose
of that retirement, to which, after many baffled efforts, they
have succeeded in persuading my late constituents to consign
me. I shall not stop to enquire how far such a proceeding be
honorable, or even politic, as it regards the views of those, who
have allowed themselves to adopt it; although the people, with
whom it was once my pride to be connected, must have undergone
some strange metamorphosis, not less rapid and disastrous
than that which our unhappy country has experienced
within the same period of time, if there be one among them
that does not see through the motives of those who would
entreat them to turn their eyes from the general calamity and
shame, and the shameless authors of them, to the faults and
indiscretions, real or imputed, of an old, dismissed public
servant, whose chief offence in the eyes of his accusers is that,
foreseeing mischief, he labored to avert it. Nine years have
now elapsed since he raised his voice against the commencement
of a system of measures, which, although artfully disguised,
were calculated, as he believed, to produce what we
have all seen, and are fated long to feel. Had they, who derided
what they were then pleased to term his `mournful vaticinations,
the reveries of a heated and disordered imagination,'
confided less in their own air-built theories, and taken warning
ere it was too late, they might be riding on `the full tide of
successful experiment,' instead of clinging with instinctive and
convulsive grasp to the wreck, which themselves have made of
public credit, of national honor, of peace, happiness and security,
and of faith among men. The very bonds, not only of
union between these states, but of society itself are loosened,
and we seem `approaching towards that awful dissolution, the
issue of which it is not given to human foresight to scan.' In
the virtue, the moderation, the fortitude of the People is
(under God) our last resource. Let them ever bear in mind
that from their present institutions there is no transition but to
military despotism; and that there is none more easy. Anarchy
is the chrysalis state of despotism; and to that state have the
measures of this government long tended, amidst professions,
such as we have heard in France and seen the effects of, of
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. None but the people can forge
their own chains; and to flatter the people and delude them by
promises never meant to be performed is the stale but successful
practice of the demagogue, as of the seducer in private
life.—`Give me only a helve for my axe,' said the woodman in
the fable to the tall and stately trees, that spread their proud
heads and raised their unlopped arms to the air of heaven.
`Give me an Army,' says the wily politican. It is only to fight
the English, to maintain `Free trade and sailors' rights'; and,
dazzled by the `pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious
war,' heedless of the miseries that lurk beneath its splendor,
the People have said Amen! Of these the heavy debts and
grinding taxes, that follow in its train, are, perhaps, the least.
Disease and vice, in new unheard-of forms, spread from the
camp throughout society. Not a village, not a neighborhood,
hardly a family escapes the infection. The searching miseries
of war penetrate even into the hovel of the shivering negro
whose tattered blanket and short allowance of salt bear witness
to the glories of that administration under which his
master is content to live. His master, no doubt some `Southern
Nabob,' some `Haughty Grandee of Virginia,' the very
idea of whose existence disturbs the repose of over-tender consciences,
is revelling in luxury which the necessary wants of
his wretched bondsmen are stinted to supply. Such is the
stuff that dreams are made of! The master, consumed by
cares, from which even the miserable African is free, accustomed
to the decent comforts of life, is racking his brain for
ways and means to satisfy the demands of the taxgatherer.
You see the struggle between his pride and his necessity. That
ancient relic of better times, on which he bends his vacant eye,
must go. It is, itself, the object of a new tax. He can no longer
afford to keep it. Moreover, he must find a substitute for his
youngest boy called into service. His eldest son has perished
in the tentless camp, the bloodless but fatal fields of the fenny
country; and even for the cherished resemblance of this favorite
child he must pay tribute to Caesar. The tear that starts
into his eye, as he adds this item to the inventory of exaction,
would serve but to excite a philosophic smile in the `Grimm'
Idol (see the diplomatic Baron's correspondence) of the Levee
and its heartless worshippers. "This date says everything. I arrived here on Sunday
afternoon, and am now writing from the Grand Hotel de Castile,
Rue Richelieu and Boulevard des Italiens; for, as the
French say, it `gives' upon both, having an entrance from
each. "A month has now elapsed since I landed in England, during
which time I have not received a line from any friend, except
Benton, who wrote to me on the eve of his departure from
Babylon the Great to Missouri. Missouri!, and here am I
writing in the parlor of the New Inn, at the gate of Mr. Coke's
park, where art has mastered nature in one of her least amiable
moods. To say the truth, he that would see this country to
advantage must not end with the barren sands and flat,
infertile healths (strike out the l; I meant to write heaths) of
the east country, but must reserve the vale of Severn and
Wales for a bonne bouche. Although I was told at Norwich
that Mr. Coke was at home (and by a particular friend of his
too), yet I find that he and Lady Anne are gone to the very
extremity of this huge county to a wool fair, at Thetford,
sixty-five miles off; and, while my companion, Mr. Williams,
of S. C. (son of David R. W.), is gone to the Hall, I am resolved
to bestow, if not `all,' a part at least of `my tediousness'
upon you. Tediousness, indeed, for what have I to write
about, unless to tell you that my health, so far from getting
better, was hardly ever worse? . . . Mr. Williams has been
very attentive and kind to me. I have been trying to persuade
him to abandon me to the underwriters as a total loss, but he
will not desert me; so that I meditate giving him the slip for his
own sake. We saw Dudley Inn and a bad race at Newmarket,
on our way to Norwich. There we embarked on the river Yare,
and proceeded to Yarmouth by the steampacket. We returned
to Norwich by land, and by different routes; he, by the
direct road, and I, by Beccles, fifteen miles further; and yet I
arrived first. Through Lord Suffield's politeness, who gave
me a most hearty invitation to Gunton, I was enabled to see
the Castle (now the county jail) to the best advantage. His
lordship is a great prison discipline financier, and was very
polite to me when I was in England four years ago. I met
him by mere accident at the inn at Norwich, where the coach
from Beccles stopped. . . . " `The Portfolio reached me in safety.' So much had I written
of a letter to you in London, but I was obliged to drop my pen
in G. Marx' compting-house, and here I am, and at your service
at The Hague. . . . "It is now agreed on all hands that misery, crime and profligacy
are in a state of rapid and alarming increase. The Pitt
and paper system (for although he did not begin it, yet he
brought it to its last stage of imperfection) is now developing
features that `fright the isle from its propriety.' "Mr. W. J. Barksdale writes his father that a run will be
made at me by G—s [Giles] this winter. On this subject, I
can only repeat what I have said before—that, when the Commonwealth
of Virginia dismisses a servant, it is strong presumptive
evidence of his unfitness for the station. If it shall
apply to my own case, I cannot help it. But I should have
nothing to wish on this subject, if the Assembly could be put
in possession of a tolerably faithful account of what I have said
and done. I have been systematically and industriously misrepresented.
I had determined to devote this last summer
to a revision of my speeches, but my life would have paid
the forfeit, had I persisted in that determination. Many
of the misrepresentations proceed from the `ineffable stupidity'
of the reporters, but some must, I think, be intentional.
. . . In most instances, my meaning has been
mistaken. In some, it has been reversed. If I live, I will set
this matter right. So much for Ego. You might know by the date (as regards the month) that I
was in the only realm in Christendom, where the new style is
not yet introduced. Much to my disappointment, your old
friend, Mr. Lewis, is not here. He is & has been for sometime
in England. I therefore sent your letter to his Compting
House as the most ready mode of getting it to his hands. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 205 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | The Daily Progress historical and industrial magazine | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE City of Opportunity, where welcome waits the stranger. County Seat of Albemarle. Home of the far-famed University
of Virginia. "A land flowing with milk and honey." Her glorious past and future possibilities. Endowed by nature
as a place of residence. A brief review of her business men whose loyalty, public spirit and sterling qualities
have earned for her the proud distinction she holds in the sisterhood of cities of the great and growing Southland. Mr. Albert E. Walker is an editor
and publisher of unusual ability. He
has just completed the issuance of a
special edition for the Mail, and we
are pleased to say the edition was in
every way a success. His relations
with us, and with the business and
professional men of Hagerstown are
of the most cordial character. He has
left behind him here the confidence
and good will of all with whom he
came in contract. In him trust may
safely reposed. Dear Sir: We feel that a word from
us is only just to you in view of your
excellent work on our Special Historical
and Industrial Edition which has
recently been issued, as it might meet
the eye of some publisher who needs
the services of an honest, capable and
energetic man to take charge of a similar
work. In all the long time that
you have been with us, our relations
have been most pleasant and we unhesitatingly
commend you as a thoroughly
competent compiler of special
editions and special work in the newspaper
field. Your sobriety and indefatigable
industry have been of especial
value to us and you have made
many friends in Frederick. We shall
take pleasure in being of service to
you at any time you may call on us.
With many good wishes for your
future success, we remain. This will certify that Mr. Albert E.
Walker has just completed for the
Martinsburg Statesman the largest and
handsomest Industrial Magazine ever
published in the state of West Virginia,
a publication we deem a credit to us
and our city. Mr. Walker has, by his
uniform courtesy and straightforward
methods, won the esteem of the entire
community. We will be pleased to
furnish at any time further endorsements
if desired. Mr. Albert E. Walker has rendered
most valuable service to the Patriot
for its special Christmas edition. Mr.
Walker carries with him our best
wishes for his success. We have found
him capable, courteous and thoroughly
reliable, and can and do recommend
him to the newspaper fraternity. Mr.
Walker sustained the most satisfactory
relations with our business men during
the progress of the work securing
for the Patriot their hearty co-operation
and support. Mr. A. E. Walker: Accept the congratulations
of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association upon the
achievement of your splendid work of
compiling and editing the special industrial
edition of The Mail, which is
one of the best and greatest literary
efforts ever attempted in the county.
We feel that this work is an invaluable
compendium, showing the advantages
of our city, and we deem it our
duty to extend to you our best wishes
in your chosen field, which can not
help to be beneficial to any community. We take pleasure in announcing to
the manufacturers of Maryland that
the Baltimore Sunday Herald will
issue an Industrial Magazine which will
present in prose and picture Maryland's
leading industries, showing the extent
of their dealing and magnitude of
their operations in the commercial
world. These editions will be found
on file in every Chamber of Commerce
and Board of trade in all the leading
cities of the United States, while the
foreign circulation will cover the
United States consulates of every English
speaking country on the globe.
The direct management of this work
will be under the supervision of Mr.
Albert E. Walker, the well known
writer and recognized authority of
national repute on industrial matters. Mr. Walker is not only a hustler but
is a gentleman in every respect. His
business methods are honorable and all
with whom he did business would be
glad to certify to his strict integrity.
I cheerfully recommend him to any
publisher who desires to issue a
souverior edition. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 206 | Author: | Irving
Washington
1783-1859 | Add | | | Title: | Works | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "Mr. Will Cottington and Captain
Partridg of Rhoode-Iland presented this
insewing request to the commissioners in
wrighting— "As touching the threats in your conclusion,
we have nothing to answer, only
that we fear nothing but what God (who
is as just as merciful) shall lay upon us;
all things being in his gracious disposal,
and we may as well be preserved by him
with small forces as by a great army,
which makes us to wish you all happiness
and prosperity, and recommend
you to his protection. My lords, your
thrice humble and affectionate servant
and friend, "I am of this mind with Homer, that as the
snaile that crept out of her shell was turned eftsoons
into a toad, and thereby was forced to make
a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth
from his owne country is in a short time transformed
into so monstrous a shape, that he is faine
to alter his mansion with his manners, and to live
where he can, not where he would." A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH
KNICKERBOCKER. "The story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredible
to many, but nevertheless I give it my full
belief, for I know the vicinity of our old Dutch
settlements to have been very subject to marvellous
events and appearances. Indeed, I have heard
many stranger stories than this, in the villages
along the Hudson; all of which were too well
authenticated to admit of a doubt. I have even
talked with Rip Van Winkle myself, who, when
last I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and
so perfectly rational and consistent on every other
point, that I think no conscientious person could
refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have
seen a certificate on the subject taken before a
country justice, and signed with a cross, in the justice's
own hand-writing. The story, therefore, is
beyond the possibility of doubt. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 208 | Author: | Clemons
Harry
1879-1968 | Add | | | Title: | The A.L.A. in Siberia | | | | Published: | 2007 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | . . . Perhaps I had better begin epistolary communication
by certain commentaries on the cablegrams. Yesterday and today I have found four new places where
books have been distributed. The largest collection was of
300 volumes, shelved in a Y. M. C. A. hut and canteen.
There were just sixteen books on the shelves, the others being
in circulation! The cards had been used in this case, and
I found that the cards recorded an average use of fully ten
loans per volume. The men were reading everything in
sight. At the beginning of this week I seemed at a loss how to
proceed. However, I learned at the office of the Chief of
Staff that a letter had recently been received there from
Miss Mary Polk of Manila stating that a dozen or so boxes
of books and periodicals had been sent by transport from the
Philippines. So I started after these, ran into a mesh of red
tape, and after some patient unwinding—during which I received
most courteous treatment—I reached the following
results—which make up my report for the week:— I have finished unpacking the boxes of periodicals which I
reported last week. The periodicals have been sorted and I
have now begun the more interesting work of making up
sets to send out. Already twenty-eight sets have been made up
for seventeen places. Some have been distributed, but thirteen
mail sacks are ready for tomorrow. I hope to be able to
send sets to all the detachments, large and small, of this expedition
during the coming week—Christmas week. Thus do
we introduce the short-story into the long Siberian night. On December 24th, I cabled to you: "For sending money
Vladivostok branch Hongkong Shanghai Bank available." There was a violent storm here on New Year's Day, and
. . . consequently what is officially known as "transportation"
has been interfered with. Herewith acknowledge receipt of parcel of magazines received
from you today. In thanking you for this shipment
I would like to express my personal appreciation for the very
good work done by the American Library Association in all
the posts that I have seen in Siberia. There has just come by post from Miss Mary Polk, of
Manila, a very welcome collection of supplies and information.
I have been particularly eager to get printed or other matter
about the working of the Camp Libraries in the States and
overseas. . . . Yesterday I received by registered post from "The One Hundredth
Bank, Ltd.," Tokyo, Japan, the following letter, under
date of January eighth: . . . "We beg to enclose herewith a cheque payable at the
Matsuda Bank for yen 3,720.93, being the equivalent of $2,000
at $53¾. This past week has been a fairly busy one. Now that I
am able to get really to work with real cases of real A. L. A.
books, perhaps you will not have to wade through such
lengthy screeds from me. . . . Last week I reported to you
the details of the quest of seven cases of books, which had
gone to the Y. M. C. A. All the difficulties which had not
previously arisen in that quest emerged this week. However,
I got the cases on Thursday. . . . One of the seven
cases was short about twenty or twenty-five books. I judge
that the case had been opened en route. I have written to the
Director of the Y. M. C. A. in Vladivostok for any possible
clue about the missing volumes. . . . The use of the little Clearing House and Reference
Library has increased beyond my expectations. And the cases
which I have been able to distribute from the twenty-one
received (three of which were sent out by the Y. M. C. A.)
have only whetted the appetite for more. I shall be grievously
disappointed if the next transport—due in about a
week—does not bring a number of cases. On February 4th, I received the following cable message:
. . . "Shall we subscribe magazines continue book shipments
how many." . . . Now I have both letters and books. In quantity too.
. . . Your words, "Your plan of action seems the only wise
one," gave me immense relief. I have felt the aim of the
American Library Association War Service. That explains
my coming to Siberia. But I was anxious lest my lack of any
experience in camp library methods should make my efforts
appear futile to you from the very start. I have taken the opportunity to go over your letter of
January ninth and the two sets of circular instructions more
carefully. . . . As yet I have not discovered an answer to my
question concerning the ultimate disposal of books. . . . Next
as regards the shipment of books from Manila and from San
Francisco. . . . When I arrived in December, of the fifty-five
cases, twenty-four were in the Quartermaster's warehouse,
having arrived but a short time before. The others
had apparently been disposed of among the forces by the
Quartermaster's Department. One of the twenty-four cases
was addressed to a regiment with headquarters at Habarovsk,
and I sent this on without opening. Of the others all but
five or six contained periodicals. These I distributed as I
have previously reported. Two boxes of good books I turned
over to the Colonel in command at the American Base, for
his regimental library—a very successful institution. There
were two huge boxes of books, many of them old and worn
and worm-eaten and all having two or three club labels pasted
on the covers. I repacked ten smaller boxes from these and
sent them to various places—a hospital, isolated stations, and
so on. Several hundred of these remain. I have permitted
them to be taken as gifts and have continued to distribute
them myself as opportunity offered—when a new ward was
opened in a nearby hospital, when a "troupe" of soldiers went
off to perform at various detachments, when a Red Cross guard
went to Omsk, when I learned of a handful of signal corps men
at a point on the railway. About a hundred and fifty newer
books I kept until I received some cards and pockets from
Miss Polk—for I found none of the books in the cases
equipped with cards and pockets—and with this hundred
and fifty I was able to effect the beginnings of an exchange of
A. L. A. books which had previously been distributed. This
exchange affected five different detachments. Notice has reached me by letter from San Francisco that
on the March transport, the "Thomas," which is due to arrive
this coming week, there are thirty-four cases of books for
me and four for the transport. . . . I shall then have received
one hundred and twenty-two altogether. If twenty more are
sent in response to my recent cablegram, there will be an adequate
supply for this expedition at its present strength. The transport "Thomas" has arrived with A. L. A. cases,
but as these are unloaded by the Quartermaster's Corps,
turned over to the Commanding General, turned back to the
Q. M. C., and turned over to me, it will probably be several
days before my "turn" comes. The thirty-four cases for the A. E. F. Siberia have been
turned over to me. As yet I have not discovered the case of
supplies, but this may possibly be at the bottom of the pile. This week the Chief of Staff went over with me the situation
concerning the withdrawal of the Expedition. . . . The
conference was specifically about the answer, [&c.] The Chief
of Staff finally suggested that periodicals might be ordered
for the permanent units. . . . In case of any withdrawals
the periodicals would, of course, follow these units to their
new location. . . . . . . The three boxes of books containing respectively, 69
71 and 71 volumes, were promptly received and have been
placed in the crew's library of this vessel. I need hardly assure
you that the acquisition of a new collection of books
at this time and place was especially gratifying. Last week I gave you the reasons for making the subscriptions
for periodicals. . . . The colonels . . . have expressed
pleasure at the idea of receiving these periodicals. I enclose
a copy of the signed letter from Colonel Styer. In reply to yours of March 23rd, I beg to say that we will
appreciate very much receiving the periodicals you mention.
If they are addressed to the Headquarters of the Regiment,
the Chaplain will attend to their distribution in case our
companies are scattered in a number of places. . . . This past week I have received your letter of February
twenty-first and two cable messages. . . . This week a box of periodicals sent by the United States
Soldiers' Christian Aid Association, George Breck, Esq., Secretary,
5 Beekman Street, New York City, was turned over
to me for distribution. The periodicals have been distributed
and the gift acknowledged. . . . Up to the present I have repacked, listed, and distributed
eighty-two cases. . . . [To continue] my attempts to
cover the whole Expedition and to make the distribution of
books so far as possible proportional to the strength of the
detachments . . . now means a redistribution of books, and
a redistribution from centers outside of Vladivostok and the
Base—from centers, that is, which are going to be reduced in
strength. Hence, I have been waiting for a fortnight or so,
and shall continue to do so until it becomes clear how the
troops are to be located. . . . . . . By repacking each case of books sent out from the
Clearing House Library (eighty-seven cases have thus far
been so repacked) and retaining a list of the contents, I have
been able to build up collections of books that were largely
free from duplication and that contained a proportion and
type of non-fiction books adapted to the local use—at least
such has been my purpose. It is altogether probable that
in the redistribution of troops the larger collections have been
broken up into smaller collections and repacked for this purpose
in such a way that I have no longer any use for my
lists. The plans for the redistribution of troops have been
carried out rapidly and my appeals to the various centers for
information about the books have thus far brought not a
single response. Of course, where companies have gone out
from the Base at Vladivostok I have been able to handle
the matter as before. But the troops from centers like
Habarovsk have gone from those centers, they are now on the
way, and, though the sectors to be guarded are known, the
actual locations of the entrained troops will depend on the
discovery of suitable barracks by the Commanding Officers;
hence, these ultimate locations are not known even at Head-quarters
in Vladivostok. . . . I have written two short letters containing lists of
books desired by Captain Ward of the Intelligence Department
and by Lieutenant Horgan, the Morale Officer. No cable . . . no message about my relief has been received.
The cable business here is extraordinarily slow and
uncertain. Your message of March fourteenth did not reach
me until the end of the month. . . . The administration of
this Expedition amid huge distances and such means of
communication and transportation is one of the feats of the
war. . . . Chaplain Loughran [appointed my successor] is one of the
four chaplains who arrived a fortnight ago on the transport
"Sherman." He has been assigned to the Base, lives at the
officers' mess where I have been staying, and a simple chapel
room is being made for him in warehouse number three, one
wall of the chapel serving also as a wall of the Base Library.
So his work will be centralized—the feast of reason on one
side and the flow of soul on the other. He is Catholic. Already
he has made a good impression for energy and for
ability to get on with the men. . . . | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 209 | Author: | Burke
William
M.D | Add | | | Title: | The mineral springs of western Virginia | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Among the numerous advantages bestowed
on Virginia by a bountiful Providence, there
are perhaps none more important than the
salubrity of climate and rich profusion of
mineral waters of its transmontane territory.
The happy combinations of these blessings,
added to its central position, will not only
make Western Virginia the great Mecca of
invalid pilgrims, but its pellucid fountains, its
beautiful villas, its secluded glens and majestic
mountains, and the rich drapery of its
noble forests, will ever attract to it the admirers
of Nature's own workmanship. I have just received your letter
of the 7th inst., soliciting my opinion and experience
of the remedial effects of the waters
of the Hot Springs in chronic diarrhœa and
difficult menstruation. "In April, 1833, I was seized with cholera in
a southern climate, from which I had scarcely
recovered when intermittent fever attacked
me. This continued at intervals until September,
when congestive fever intervened,
and continued with great violence for the
space of nine days, and only subsided to give
place to the intermittent again. From this,
morbid appetite began to prey upon me. The
ague alternated with a severe dysentery until
March, 1834. Ostematous swellings of the
lower extremities made their appearance, but
gave way to the use of alteratives and
muriated tincture of iron. I became much
emaciated and debilitated; my spleen became
much enlarged; an excessively morbid condition
of the stomach continued; an ungovernable
craving for food of the grossest description,
and other indigestible substances.
In the mean time, an uncontrollable diarrhœa,
which has given me more uneasiness than
every other symptom, came on. "In the month of January, 1806, during my
attendance on the Virginia Legislature, of
which I was then a member, I was very sorely
afflicted with an attack of inflammatory rheumatism;
and about the first of July, in the
same year, after the disease had assumed a
chronic state, I arrived at the Hot Springs in
Virginia much debilitated, requiring two persons
to put me in and take me out of the carriage.
I remained at the Springs sixty-three
days, using the bath once every day except
three. I was weighed the day I got to the
Springs, and also on the day I left them; and
if I was correctly weighed, I gained sixty
pounds in weight in sixty-three days, and remained
free from that complaint for upwards
of twenty years. "In 1826, I had a protracted attack of bilious
fever, which left me in this condition. My
stomach and bowels being much disordered,
accompanied with great flatulency, gave me
from 4 to 6 passages every 24 hours, and
sometimes oftener; my stools mixed with
blood more or less, and sometimes with matter
very offensive. At length a tumor formed
in the lower intestine about the size of a
small walnut, attended with great heat and
itching, which ultimately broke, and I occasionally
discharged considerable quantities of
blood and matter by stool. I then thought, and
still think, that the whole rectum was much
diseased, and I should be compelled to submit
to an operation or fall a victim to the disease.
In addition to many other sufferings, in the
fall of 1831, I had a severe rheumatic attack,
which pervaded my whole muscular system,
but was most distressing about my breast,
chest, bowels and hips. In this situation,
about the first of July following, I went to
the Hot Springs barely able to sit up, and
used the waters freely, drinking and bathing
until the 30th of August, when I left them
much relieved in every way. The ensuing
summer I again returned to the Hot Springs,
and used the waters by drinking and bathing
until the last of August, when I returned
home entirely relieved of bowel disease and
nearly so of my rheumatism. I have again
this summer visited these Springs, where I
have been for three weeks using the waters
as before, and believe myself entirely relieved
of all my complaints, except a little stiffness
in my hips and back. At your request, and for the
benefit of the afflicted, I give you as near as I
can, a statement of my case, which has been
complicated and difficult to describe. I am a
resident of Detroit, State of Michigan. In July,
1829, I was attacked with a bilious fever and
severe inflammation of the stomach, and was
reduced very low by bleeding and medicine.
I remained in a feeble state about six months,
when an ulcer came out on the side of my
ancle nearly the size of a dollar. This has
continued on one or the other, and sometimes
on both of my ancles, ever since except about
two months in March and April last. My
legs have been so much swelled, that I have
been compelled to bandage them to the knee,
most of the time. About three years ago, a
rheumatic disease set in, the cords of my legs
8*
swelled to the knees, and at times to the body,
(mostly on the inside) with hard lumps on
the cords frequently as large as hickory nuts,
and extremely painful. "In the summer of 1836 I visited the Virginia
Springs, with liver disease, as stated by
many physicians. I used the Sulphur Waters
for some time, but without any decided effect.
I then came to the Hot Springs, and after
using the Spout bath for a few days, the pain
in the right side, from a dull, increased to an
acute, which induced me to apply to Dr.
Goode for advice. He gave me ten grains of
calomel, which brought about a most happy
change in my feelings and health; producing
copious discharges of dark bilious matter,
when forty grains, often before taken, produced
but a limited effect. I give you the following statement
of my case. About ten years ago I became
dyspeptic, and was unwell in the usual way,
when at length I became much worse; almost
every thing taken in the stomach produced
pain, and frequently violent spasms, which
threatened death. I experienced no relief except
when under the influence of calomel.
Tiring of which, after suffering for about
two years, I determined to try the Sulphur
Waters. In compliance with your request,
I transmit you an account of my case.
In the latter part of 1836, I had a violent attack
of cholica pictonum, or white lead disease;
which, in despite of the most energetic
treatment, terminated in a paralysis of my
arms and hands, which deprived me almost
entirely of the use of them, with great emaciation
and general debility and prostration. I received on yesterday your
message from Mr. Seth Ward; it affords me
pleasure to comply. The case of rheumatism you desired
the particulars of was that of Mr. J— C—,
of Charleston, S. C., aged eighteen years. He
had been seriously afflicted for some time before
he was put under my protection, which
was on the 17th day of June, when we left
Charleston for the Virginia Springs. We arrived
at the White Sulphur on the 28th of
June, and remained there until the 9th of
July, taking from eight to ten tumblers of the
water daily. I am now erecting a continuous
line of framed house (one story high)
one hundred and sixty feet long, by twenty-one
feet in width, containing twenty-four (fire)
rooms, ten feet by twelve feet in clear, and all
upon the same level, with a neat portico in
front the entire length. I have removed the
house from the Bath near the hotel, and I
mean to convert the bath into a pool with a
railing around it. In the place of this I shall
make two spacious baths sixteen by twenty up
at the Red Chalybeate Springs. A new walk
from the centre of the hotel towards these
Springs, together with other improvements not
only about the hotel, but in the road, fences,
&c., I hope will add both comfort and pleasure
to my future visitors. Through my friends, J. S.
Cook, Esq. and Dr. H. J. Bowditch, I received
specimens of the water, red deposit and mud,
from the Red Sulphur Springs, in Virginia,
for chemical analysis. It was with great interest
that I engaged in the experiments, as
very little was known of the chemical composition
of this water, although its medicinal
effects had rendered the watering-place a celebrated
one. I have sent Mr. Cook an account
of the results obtained. Since my
observations were communicated, Mr. Cook
has allowed me to peruse a copy of a letter
from Professor Rogers, dated in May, 1835,
in which is contained a notice of a peculiar
organic matter contained in the water. He
has therefore anticipated my discovery, by
some years. I do not, however, consider this
substance identical with baragene or glairine
of the Warm Springs of Italy and France.
It is, so far as I know, new and peculiar, and
seems to be an azotised base combined with
sulphur, and so combined as to neutralize the
distinctive characters of the sulphur. The hy-drosulphuric
acid gas (sulphuretted hydrogen)
found in the water, is produced through the
agency of this body; either by its action on
the sulphates present, or more probably the
substance itself disengages hydro. sulp. acid,
before reaching the surface of the earth, abstracting
oxygen from air already dissolved
in the water. It is in favour of this view that
less oxygen is present in this than in common
water, the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen in
river water often giving 38 per 100 of oxygen.
I have minutely examined the saline contents
of the water, and the results sent you are
those which have been checked by independent
experiments. The almost entire absence
of chlorine, or muriatic acid, is a singular fact.
I examined every bottle for chlorine, and although
in most of them traces were found,
they were not constantly observed, and quite as
likely to be derived from accidental sources, as
from the water. The largest quantity found
would have carried my decimals to four, or
five, and is wholly unimportant. The water
gives by tests indications like those observed
when chlorine is present, but the appearance
is fallacious. I have arranged the acids and
basis according to the views of Murray and
Berzelius, and experiments show that in this
case these views are correct. The alkaline
action of this water is due to the solution of
the carbonate of magnesia in carbonic acid
(Murray's fluid magnesia), and the peculiar
substance distinctive of this water seems to be
dissolved in this solution. I. When separated from a solution by evaporation,
or by drying from a gelatinous state,
it forms greasy films, which do not darken
solutions of lead or copper. We think that a candid review of the analysis
of the Red Sulphur and of our remarks
on its action, founded on a long observation
and experience, will lead every unbiassed
mind to conclude that the claims of this water
as a curative agent are well founded; but
we do not mean to rest our case here; we can
prove beyond a doubt that this water exerts
an influence over the circulation that no
other agent has been known to exert. The
evidences which we have received of this fact
in the course of our nine years of ownership,
would fill a large volume; but we will content
ourselves with publishing a few recent
cases in addition to those given by the late
Dr. Huntt in his pamphlet on this Spring.
Few persons were better qualified than that
lamented physician to make observations on
a mineral water. His perception was clear,
his observation acute, his discrimination accurate,
his judgment sound, and his integrity
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incorruptible; and after witnessing with his
own eyes the effects of this water, and reflecting
well and long on what he was about to
assert, he pays it the following compliment: On my way to this place, at a
public house where we stopped to dine, I
picked up a newspaper, the Western Whig,
dated 14th August (last month), in which I
find there had been a committee formed to
take into consideration a report prevailing
prejudicial to the curative qualities of the
Mineral Waters at the Red Sulphur Springs,
&c., &c., which report was proven to be false
by said committee, as well as by a number of
certificates signed by gentlemen of high reputation
and intelligence. I have purposely delayed
advising you of the state of my health since
my return to this city. The change which
came over me while under the operation of
the Red Sulphur water was so sudden, and so
great, that I confess I doubted whether the
good effects would be permanent. It is now
upwards of two months since I left the Red
Sulphur Spring, and I am happy to be able
to assure you that my health is even better
than when I left you. My cough and expectoration,
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which was confined almost entirely
to the morning when I returned to this city,
has now pretty much subsided, and my lungs
are evidently stronger than they were then.
I have, moreover, gained some two or three
pounds in weight since I returned. Having been a sufferer for more than
three years, from organic disease of the heart, connected
with bronchitis, pronounced so by eminent physicians of S.
Carolina, I had the good fortune to visit your Spring, and
using the water freely for nearly two weeks, with a decidedly
good effect upon my obstinate disease, I feel it a duty I
owe to the public, and to other sufferers like myself, to say,
that I find it to possess none of the irritating quality that
some persons suppose. So highly have I been pleased with
the medicinal qualities of the water of your Spring, that I
beg you will send me a barrel of it containing 30 or 35 gallons. The undersigned, visiters at the Salt
Sulphur Springs, prompted by a sense of grateful respect
for your kind and unwearied attentions to ourselves and
families, beg leave to convey to you our assurance of entire
satisfaction with the arrangements of your establishment.
Such have been the cordial hospitalities and ample
and varied accommodations of your house, that we shall
ever look back to our temporary residence with you with
pleasure and delight. Having been greatly benefitted by drinking
the waters of your valuable Spring, I deem it a duty
to my fellow-beings to leave this statement of my case in
your hands.—For six months previous to my coming here,
I had been suffering with a most obstinate constipation of
the bowels, which I had tried in vain to remove by medicine,
diet, and exercise; and during that time I could not
obtain a stool without the aid of an injection, and great
pain attending it. After being here ten days, the Salt Sulphur
water began to act freely on my bowels, and now, at
the expiration of a month, I am glad to inform you that the
constipation is entirely removed, my health and strength
restored, and I am now going home in cheerful spirits to
my friends. Mrs. — left her house in a state of great debility,
scarcely able to walk, and was but little recruited by the
journey. She reached the Salt Sulphur on the 20th July
having stopped a week at the White Sulphur on the way
but without using the water. After remaining three days
at the Salt Sulphur, and partaking of the waters there
she proceeded to the Red Sulphur, and staid there six days
returning on the 29th July to the Salt, having, while at the
Red, used two or three tumblers of the water per diem; remained
at the Salt Sulphur until the 9th of August. When
Mrs. — arrived first at the Salt Sulphur, she weighed 91
pounds, and was unable to walk any distance, or use any
degree of exercise, without suffering greatly. Some years since I was afflicted with an obstinate and
dangerous disease, from which I was unable to obtain relief
until I visited the Salt Sulphur Spring, near Union, in the
county of Monroe. The use of that water restored me to
perfect health; which makes it my duty to state, at the request
of the proprietors, the high opinion I have formed of
its medicinal efficacy. I consider the Salt Sulphur water
eminently useful in all cases that require cathartic remedies,
particularly such diseases of the liver and stomach as proceed
from biliary obstructions. The operation upon the
bowels is active, but not violent; cleansing effectually the
alimentary canal, and promoting digestion in a remarkable
degree. The cathartic tendency of the water is so mild and
certain, that the stomach and bowels are never oppressed
or irritated; and whilst the healthy functions of the system
are enabled to take their course, the suspended causes of
disease are gradually worn away. In the year 1812 I visited the Sweet and Sulphur Springs.
I was then laboring under a nervous debility and extreme
costiveness. I derived much benefit from the use of all
those waters, but found none so strong and active as the
Salt Sulphur. I concur in the opinion with many, that this
is a valuable water, and should be more sought after. Intending to leave your excellent and
perfectly arranged establishment to-morrow on my return
home, I cannot, however, do so without expressing my
thanks to you for your politeness and attention to myself,
(and I observed the same attention to others,) during my
stay at the Salt Sulphur; and I have much pleasure in saying,
that the use of the Salt Sulphur Spring water has been
eminently beneficial to me, for, prior to my coming here, I
had been suffering for upwards of eighteen months from a
total derangement of stomach from a long residence in a
warm climate (Bermuda), say, bad bile, great acidity of
stomach, and an overflow of mucus to the lungs; in short,
I had the dyspepsia with all its disagreeables, accompanied
with debility of body. Having tried the White Sulphur for
ten days without benefit, I came here, and in a week I
found relief from all my complaints; but my medical adviser,
who practised at the White, recommended me to try
the Red Sulphur, notwithstanding my having written to
him of my improved state,—my pulse, for one thing, being
reduced from 80 to 73 beats. I went to the Red, and staid
there eight days;*
*We have a distinct recollection of this gentleman's case. He had
been laboring under chronic irritation of the stomach, which, by too
free use of the Sulphur waters, and perhaps imprudence in diet, was
converted into an acute form, about the time he reached the Red Sulphur.
Dr. Saunders, then resident physician at the Red, instituted a
vigorous treatment, which in a few days subdued the attack, and the
patient's system was now in a condition to receive all the benefit
which he subsequently derived from the Salt Sulphur.
my pulse rose on the third day to 82, the
fifth day 89, the sixth day to 96 and 100. I was obliged to
be leeched, which reduced my pulse to 84. I had three headaches
and great dryness of tongue; so on the 9th day in
the morning, I returned to the Salt, where, on the fourth
day, my pulse was again at 73, on the sixth day at 71, and
has continued from that day to this, varying only from 71
to 72, night and morning. I have been affected for five or six years with an obstinate
disease of the liver, and dyspepsia, and have visited
nearly all the Springs in the mountains without having experienced
any material benefit, until I came to this place.
I have applied to some of the best physicians without being
relieved, but am happy to state, that the Salt Sulphur water
has had a most beneficial effect in removing many of the
inconveniences attending my disease, insomuch that I am
induced to carry a portion of it home with me. During the summer of 1845 I was induced to try the Iodine
Spring, at the Salt Sulphur Springs, in Monroe, for an obstinate
and (as I then supposed) incurable eruption on the skin
of one of my children. The disease first appeared, at the age
of three weeks, in the shape of small red spots upon the cheeks,
succeeded very soon by little watery pimples, which rose and
broke continually, but without healing. In a short time the
affected parts increased in size as well as quantity, until they
extended from the face to the head and neck, and thence over
the entire body—presenting one uniform and consolidated appearance
of disease over the whole surface. The neck, head,
and face discharged matter from the scabs, and the legs from
the knee down. For fourteen months I kept the child constantly
under medical treatment, but without any permanent
benefit, or any prospect of recovery, until, at the instance of
Dr. M.—(who at that time was residing at the Salt,) I was
induced to make a trial of its waters. He represented the
disease as a constitutional affection of the blood which could
not be relieved, and which ought not to be arrested very suddenly,
but assured me, very confidently, that it would yield to
nothing with so much certainty and success as to the external
application of the Iodine water at the Salt. The child
was bathed twice a day in the water made gently tepid, of
which it drank pretty copiously during the ceremony. About
the fourth day there was an evident change for the better, and
the child from that time continued to improve daily, until at
the expiration of six weeks, the sores had healed, the scabs
had disappeared, the pimples and splotches had subsided, and
the skin for the first time for more than fourteen months assumed
a natural and healthy appearance. I have no doubt
by remaining a few weeks longer every vestige of the eruption
would have been removed. But I consider the disease
at this time as effectually conquered, and as having changed
its type completely. Indeed, the only indications ever visible
are an occasional roughness on the skin. As we used no
medicine, except occasionally some mild cathartic, I feel no
hesitation in ascribing all the results that I have stated to the
effects of the Iodine water. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 211 | Author: | Sawyer
Lemuel
1777-1852 | Add | | | Title: | A biography of John Randolph, of Roanoke | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | On the 10th of January, 1800, Mr. Randolph made his maiden speech on Mr.
Nicholas's resolution for reducing the army. In the course of his remarks, he applied
the term "raggamuffins" to the soldiery in general. On the following night,
while he was seated in a front row of a box at the Chestnut street theatre, in
company with some friends, members of the House, two officers of the army or
navy, in an adjoining box, just before the curtain rose, began to vociferate to the
orchestra, "Play up, you d—d raggamuffins," and repeated it at intervals during
the performance. The friends of Mr. Randolph, apprehending some mischief
or personal insult, sat closely on each side of him, and put him on his guard.
At the conclusion of the piece as they arose to depart, Mr. R. felt some one
seize him by the hair of the head from behind and give him a violent pull, that
nearly brought him down on his seat. Turning suddenly around, he found the
two officers standing close by, when he asked, "Which of these two d—d rascals
did that?" No answer was returned, and his friends, taking him between
them, retired to their respective lodgings without further molestation. The next
day Mr. Randolph wrote a letter to the President, in which he complained of
this treatment by two officers of the army or navy (he did not know which),
with evident intention to provoke him to a course of conduct which might, in
some sort, justify the hostile designs they entertained towards him, from the execution
of which they were only deterred by the presence of several of his friends.
He stated that he was acquainted with the name of one of these young men,
who appeared to have so false an estimate of true dignity of character, who
seemed to have mistaken brutality for spirit, and an armed combination against
the person of an individual for an indication of courage. He was called McKnight,
rank unknown. Mr. Christie, a member of the House, appeared to
know him; and that gentleman, with Capt. Campbell Smith, who, as he understood,
endeavored to deter those rash young men from their scheme, and whose
conduct would evince, if, indeed, there were any need of proof, that the character
of the man and the citizen is not incompatible with the soldier, can give an
account of the various instances of misconduct which were exhibited by the parties. As the enclosed letter
from a member of your body, received by me on the night of Saturday, the 11th
instant, relates to the privileges of the House, which in my opinion ought to be
inquired into by the House itself, if anywhere, I have thought proper to submit
the whole letter and its tendencies to your consideration, without any other
comments on its matter and style. But as no gross impropriety of conduct
on the part of officers holding commissions in the army or navy of the United
States, ought to pass without due animadversions, I have directed the Secretary
of War and the Secretary of the Navy to investigate the conduct complained of,
and report to me without delay such a statement of facts as will enable me to
decide on the course which duty and justice shall appear to prescribe. Your note handed to me last night by Mr. Goode, in which
you say, `understanding that the friends of the administration and others will
support you for the Senate in opposition to Mr. Randolph, you desire to understand
distinctly whether they have my consent, or not; and if not, request me to
say whether I will not abandon the chair of state at this time, to accept a seat
in the Senate,' deserves and shall have a candid reply. Let me premise that I
am unacquainted with the political preferences of those disposed to sustain me
for the Senate. Suffice it to say, that my political opinions on the fundamental
principles of the government are the same with those espoused by Mr. Randolph,
and I admire him most highly for his undeviating attachment to the constitution,
manifested at all times, and through all the events of a long political life; and
if any man votes for me under a different persuasion, he most grievously deceives
himself. Yon ask me whether I have yielded my consent to oppose him.
On the contrary, I have constantly opposed myself to all solicitations. I desire most
earnestly to be left at peace. There is no motive which could induce me to
seek to change my present situation for a seat in the Senate at this time. I
cannot admit that to be one in a body of forty-eight members is to occupy a
more elevated station than that presented in the chief magistracy of Virginia.
My private interests, intimately connected with the good of my family, are
more highly sustained by remaining where I am, than by the talked-of change.
There is then no consideration, public or private, which could lead me to desire
it. From the first to the last, everywhere and to all with whom I have conversed,
this has been my uniform language. Your last inquiry is one, which,
urged by those who felt disposed to sustain me, I have constantly declined
answering. Propriety and a due regard to consistency of deportment require
me to decline an answer now. Should the office, in opposition to my wishes (a
result which I cannot anticipate), be conferred upon me, I shall then give to the
expression of the legislative will such reflection and pronounce such decision as
my sense of what is due to it may seem to require. These explanations might
have been had by each and all of you, gentlemen, verbally if you had sought to
have attained them in that way, which might possibly have discovered a greater
degree of confidence in me. But as they are now given, you are at liberty to
use them in any mode you please, reserving to myself a similar privilege. We take great pleasure in complying with the wishes of a number
of the members of the Legislature and citizens of Richmond, to ask the favor of
your company to a dinner at the Eagle Hotel, to-morrow, at 5 o'clock, as the
best mode they can adopt to evince the high sense they entertain of your distinguished
public services, and firmness in maintaining the principles of the Constitution,
and resisting the mischievous measures of an infatuated administration. The feebleness of my health admonishes me of the imprudence
I commit in accepting your very kind and flattering invitation, but I am unable
to practise the self-denial which prudence would impose. I have only to
offer my profound acknowledgments for an honor to which I am sensible of no
claim on my part except the singleness of purpose with which I have endeavored
to uphold our common principles, never more insidiously and vigorously assailed
than now, and never more resolutely defended and asserted. Your very kind and flattering invitation found me confined by
a painful and distressing disease, which only leaves me power to express my
sense of the honor done me, and my regret at being unable to partake of the
hospitality and festivity of my Prince Edward friends, to whom I am bound by
every tie that can unite me to the kindest and most indulgent constituents that
ever man had. "In the name of God—amen. I, John Randolph, of Roanoke, in the county
of Charlotte, do ordain this writing, written with my own hand, this 4th of
May, 1819, to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others whatever.
I give my slaves their freedom, to which my conscience tells me they
are justly entitled. It has a long time been a matter of the deepest regret to me,
that the circumstances under which I inherited them, and the obstacles thrown
in the way by the laws of the land, have prevented my manumitting them in
my lifetime, which is my full intention to do, in case I can accomplish it. All
the residue of my estate (with the exceptions herein made), whether real or
personal, I bequeath to William Leigh, Esquire, of Halifax, attorney at law, to
the Rev. William Meade, of Frederick, and to Francis S. Key, Esquire, of
Georgetown, in trust for the following uses and purposes, viz. 1. To provide
one or more tracts of land, in any of the States or Territories, not exceeding in
the whole, four thousand acres, nor less than two thousand, to be partitioned
and apportioned by them in such manner as may seem best, among said slaves.
2d. To pay the expense of their removal and of furnishing them with the necessary
cabins, clothes and utensils. 3d. To pay the expense, not to exceed four
hundred dollars per annum, of the education of John Randolph Clay, until he
shall arrive at the age of twenty-three, leaving him my injunction to scorn to eat
the bread of idleness or dependence. 4th. To pay to Theodoric Bland Dudley
ten thousand dollars. 5th. With the residue of said estate to found a college,
to be called Roanoke College. I give to Theodore B. Dudley all my books,
plate, household and kitchen furniture, and all my liquors; also my guns and
pistols, and the choice of six of my horses or brood mares, and my single
chaise, with my best riding saddle and valise. It is my wish and desire that my
executors give no bond or security for the trust reposed in them. In witness
whereof, &c., &c. * * * * "I hope you have not exposed yourselves to the inconvenience of
any debt, however small; but I know this is an error into which youthful heedlessness
is too apt to run. If you have escaped it, you have exercised more
judgment than I possessed at your age, the want of which cost me many a
heart-ache. When any bauble caught my fancy, I would perhaps buy it on
credit for twice as much as it was worth. In a day or two, cloyed with the
possession of what, to my youthful imagination, had appeared so very desirable,
I would readily have given it to the first I met; but, in disearding it, I
could not exonerate myself from the debt that accrued, the recollection of which
incessantly tormented me. Many a night's sleep has been broken by sad reflection
on the difficulty into which I had plunged myself, and in devising means
of extrication. At the appearance of my creditor I shrunk, and looked, no
doubt, as meanly as I felt; for the relation of debtor and creditor is that of a
slave to his master. It begins with the subjugation of his mind, and ends with
that of his body. Speaking of a promiser (and every creditor is a promisemaker,
and too often a promise-breaker), you cannot be too much upon your
guard against them, unless you are sure the performance is in your power, and
at the same time will conduce to your honor and benefit, or those of another.
* * * * The courage which enables us to say no to an improper application,
cannot be too soon acquired. The want of it has utterly rumed many an amiable
man. Do not, through false shame, through a vicious modesty, entrap
yourself into a situation which may dye your cheeks with real shame. As to
the promiser, he is like the keeper who puts his head into the lion's mouth
to amuse the spectators. This he did frequently and got it safely out, till at
last the lion, in a fit of ill-humor, bit it off. Your word ought to be dearer to
you than your head. Beware how you put it into the lion's mouth. * * * A
liar is always a coward." "One of the best and wisest men I ever saw, has often said to me, that a
decayed family could never recover its loss of rank in the world, until it left off
talking and dwelling upon its former rank and opulence in the world. I have
seen this verified in numerous instances in my own connexions, who, to use
the words of my oracle, will never thrive till they become poor folks. He added,
`they may make some struggles, and with apparent success, to recover lost
ground, they may get half way up again, but are sure to fall back, unless, reconciling
themselves to their circumstances, they become poor in form, as well as
in fact.' The blind pursuit of wealth for the sake of hoarding, is a species of
insanity. There are spirits, and not the less worthy, who, content with an
humble mediocrity, leave the field of wealth and ambition open to more active,
perhaps more guilty competitors. Nothing can be more respectable than the
independence that grows out of self-denial. The man who, by abridging his
wants, can find time to cultivate his mind, or to aid his fellow-creatures, is a
being far above the plodding sons of industry and gain. His is a spirit of the
noblest order. But what shall we say to the drone whom society is eager to
shake from her encumbered lap—who lounges from place to place, and spends
more time in Adonising his person, even in a morning, than would serve to
earn his breakfast—who is curious in his living, a connoisseur in wines, fastidious
in his cooking, but who never knew the luxury of earning a meal? Such
a creature, sponging from house to house and always on the borrow, may still
be seen in Virginia. One more generation may put an end to them." * * "I have been up since half-past one. Yesterday I dined by accident at the
Union in Georgetown with Mr. K. (Key), and though I had toast and water, I
missed my milk. I drank, too, at the earnest recommendation of some of the
party, some old port wine, which has done me no good. My dinner was the
lean of a very fine haunch of venison, without any gravy, and a little rice.
Since it began to rain I have felt as restless as a leech in a weather-glass, and
so I sit down to write to you. On Saturday I had a narrow escape from a
most painful death. Wildair dashed off with me on the avenue, alarmed at a
tattered wagon-cover, shivering in the wind, and would have dashed us both to
pieces against a poplar, but when she was running full-bent against it, and not
a length off, by a violent exertion of the left heel and right hand, I bore her off.
There was not the thickness of half a quire of paper on which I am writing,
between my body and the tree. Had I worn a great-coat, or cloth boots, I must
have touched, perhaps been dragged off by them. * * * *
In the course of my life, I have encountered some risks, but nothing like this.
My heart was in my mouth for a moment, and I felt the strongest convictions
of my utter demerit in the sight of God, and it gushed out in thankfulness for
His signal and providential preservation. `What,' thought I, `had been my
condition had I then died? As the tree falleth, so it must lie.' I had been but
a short time before saying to a man who tried to cheat me, some very hard and
bitter things. It was a poor auctioneer, who had books on private sale. He
attempted to impose upon me in respect to some classical books of which he
was entirely ignorant, and I exposed his ignorance to people in the shop, many
of whom were members of Congress, and no better informed than him. The
danger I escaped was no injury to the speech which I made, out of breath, on
finding, when I reached the House, that there was a call for the previous question.
So true it is, that of all motives religious feeling is the most powerful.
I am reading for the second time an admirable novel called `Marriage.' It is
recommended by Scott in his `Legend of Montrose.' I wish you would read
it. Perhaps it might serve to palliate some of your romantic notions (for I despair
of a cure) on the subject of love and marriage. A man that marries a
woman he does not esteem and treat kindly, is a villain. But marriage was
made for man, and if the woman be good-tempered, healthy (a qualification
scarcely thought of now-a-days), chaste, cleanly, economical, and not an absolute
fool, she will make him a better wife than nine out of ten deserve to have.
To be sure, if to these beauty and understanding be added, all the better. Neither
would I quarrel with a good fortune, if it has produced no ill effect upon the
possessor." "As I have recommended Marriage to you (the book I mean), this digression
on genealogy*
*He gave his own genealogy.
may remind you of Misses Jockey, the agreeable sisters. You
entirely misapprehend my mode of life. I am very rarely out of bed after 9
o'clock, and when I exceed that hour, it is not at evening parties. Last night
I was seduced by a book to go beyond that hour a little. * * * The other day I
dined at the French minister's. It was Saturday, Madame De N.'s (De Neuville's)
night. At half past 7 we joined the evening visitors, and at half past
8 I was snug in bed. To be sure I was politely reproached, as I was going
away, by the Count De Menou (Secretary of Legation), and since by his principal,
for going away so early; but my plea of weak health satisfied their jealousy.
This is felt, and shown too, by all here in the highest ranks of fashion.
Madame is charity itself. The poor will miss her when she goes away. One
of her sayings deserves to be written in letters of gold: `When the rich are
sick, they ought to be starved; when the poor are sick, they ought to be fed.'
This is no bad medical precept. Just as I mounted my horse on Monday morning at
Washington, your truly welcome and friendly letter was put into my hands. I
arrived here this evening a little before sunset, after a ride on horseback of thirty-five
miles. Pretty well, you'll say, for a man whose lungs are bleeding, and
with a church-yard cough, which gives so much pleasure to some of your New
York editors of newspapers. But to me, a horse is what a ship is to you. I
am never so easy as when in the saddle. Nevertheless, if a gentleman (we are
all gentlemen now-a-days) who received upwards of 300 pounds sterling for
me, merely to hand it over, had not embezzled it by applying it to his own use,
I should be a passenger with you on the 8th. I tried to raise money by the sale
of some property, that only twelve months ago I was teased to part with, lots
and houses in Farmsville, seventy miles above Petersburgh on the Appomatox,
but could not last week get a bid for it. I have known land (part good wood
land) sell for one dollar an acre, that ten years ago would have commanded ten
dollars, and last year five or six. Four fine negroes sold for three hundred and
fifty dollars, and so in proportion. But I must quit this wretched subject. My
pay as member of Congress is worth more than my best and most productive
property, for which a few years ago I could have got $80,000, exclusive of
slaves and stock. I gave a few years ago $27,000 for one estate, without a
house or a fence on it. After putting it in fine order, I found that so far from
making one per cent., or one half or one quarter of one per cent., it does not
clear expenses by about $750 per annum, over and above all the crops. Yet I
am to be taxed for the benefit of wool-spinners, &c., to destroy the whole navigating
interest of the United States; and we find representatives from New
Bedford, Cape Anne, Marblehead, and Salem and Newburyport, voting for this,
if they can throw the molasses overboard to lighten the ship tariff. She is a
pirate under a black flag. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 213 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | Dictionary of the History of Ideas | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The term “abstraction” is the
usual expression in medi- eval philosophical
terminology for several processes distinguished in Aristotle's writings by
different terms, viz., aphairesis
(ἄφαιρεσις)
and korismos
(χωρισμός)
described in different ways. In all probability, it was Boethius who
introduced the Latin abstractio and
abstrahere to translate these Greek nouns and the re- lated verbs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 215 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | Dictionary of the History of Ideas | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The concept of despotism is perhaps the least known
of that family which includes tyranny, autocracy,
absolutism, dictatorship (in its modern usage), and
totalitarianism. Although nearly contemporary with
“tyranny,” the concept of despotism has not been as
significant in the history of political thought. Never-
theless at some times, and in the work of some of the
greatest political philosophers, the concept of des-
potism has been sharply distinguished from other
members of its family, and has attained an unusual
prominence, as when Montesquieu made it into one
of the three fundamental types of government. It was
in the eighteenth century, and particularly in France,
that despotism supplanted tyranny as the term most
often used to characterize a system of total domination,
as distinguished from the exceptional abuse of power
by a ruler. The temporary success of the term led to
its conflation with tyranny, as in the Declaration of
Independence where in successive sentences, “absolute
Despotism” and “absolute Tyranny” are used as syno-
nyms. In 1835 Tocqueville expressed the opinion that
after the French Revolution, modern politics and soci-
ety had taken on a character that rendered both con-
cepts inadequate. Today their usage suggests archaism:
controversies over twentieth-century forms of total
domination have centered on the concepts of dictator-
ship and totalitarianism. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 216 | Author: | unknown | Add | | | Title: | Dictionary of the History of Ideas | | | | Published: | 2008 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Psychology is a modern term, but its components,
psyche and logos, are words whose history goes back
to the Indo-European parent language. For the philos-
ophers of classical antiquity, giving an “account”
(logos) of the psyche was a necessary part of intellectual
inquiry. Greek philosophy was vitally concerned with
many of the problems which exercise modern
psychologists, but did not regard “study of the mind”
as an autonomous subject with specific terms of refer-
ence. Frequently theories about the psyche were
intimately connected with ethical, physical, and meta-
physical assumptions. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 218 | Author: | Mill, John Stuart | Add | | | Title: | The Subjection of Women / by John Stuart Mill | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able grounds
of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had
formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead
of being weakened or modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the
progress reflection and the experience of life. That the principle which
regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal
subordination of one sex to the other -- is wrong itself, and now one of
the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced
by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the
one side, nor disability on the other. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 219 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An orientation session for new Board Members was held on Thursday, April 5, 2001, in the Lower West Oval Room of the
Rotunda. New Members Thomas F. Farrell, II and Thomas A. Saunders, III, attended, as well as Ms. Sasha L. Wilson, the new Student Member. The
Rector, John P. Ackerly, III, presided. The
President, John T. Casteen, III; Leonard W.
Sandridge, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer;
Peter W. Low, Vice President and Provost; Robert W. Cantrell, M.D., Vice President for Health
System; Paul J. Forch, General Counsel; and Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Secretary to the Board,
participated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 220 | Author: | University of Virginia
Board of Visitors | Add | | | Title: | Board of Visitors minutes | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | An orientation session for the new Members of the Board was held, in Open Session, from 2:45 to 4:05 p.m. on
Thursday, May 30, 2002, in the Lower West Oval Room of the Rotunda. All five new Members were present:
Mark J. Kington, Don R. Pippin, Warren M. Thompson, E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., M.D., and H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.,
the Student Member. The Rector, John P. Ackerly, III, and the President, John T. Casteen, III, presided;
Leonard W. Sandridge, Gene D. Block, Paul J. Forch and Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr. participated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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