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It was on this, that three years ago, in the Senate of the United States, Benjamin Watkins Leigh built his argument against the constitutional power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. I well remember that you then denied the soundness of his argument.
"The tyrannical control of the English press is a shame; and yet these officials who truckle to the English government want to try it on here. But such intolerance ought not to be borne." The Courant was exceedingly sarcastic, and no writer was more so than Benjamin, young as he was. This was the real cause of the action of the Assembly.
It is a source of genuine delight to me, who am of a kindly nature enough, according to my own reckoning, to watch the good woman, and see what looks of pride and affection she bestows upon her Benjamin, and how, in spite of herself, the maternal feeling betrays its influence in her dispensations of those delicacies which are the exceptional element in our entertainments.
It was in the summer of 1745, a few months before he was seven years old that his married sister came home for a visit, bringing with her an infant daughter. The next morning after her arrival, little Benjamin was left to keep the flies off the sleeping baby, while his mother and sister went to the garden for flowers. The baby smiled in its sleep, and the boy was captivated.
Crabtree and Sir Benjamin those poor snakes that live but in the sunshine of your mirth must be ripened by this hot-bed process of realization into asps or amphisbaenas; and Mrs. Candour O! frightful! become a hooded serpent. No piece was, perhaps, ever so completely cast in all its parts as this manager's comedy. Miss Farren had succeeded to Mrs.
This apparent unconcern explained her son's refusal to make a sacrifice for this marriage of his liberal opinions, the term "liberal" having lately been created for the Emperor Alexander by, I think, Madame de Stael, through the lips of Benjamin Constant.
"John Medley Stickles, sir," came the quick reply. "A good name, my little man," and the parson patted him on the head. "May you be worthy of your namesake, that noble man of God the first Bishop of this Diocese. Now next," and he pointed to the second little Stickles. "Benjamin Alexander Stickles, sir," "Ha, ha. Named after your two grandfathers. Fine men they were, too.
But they would not follow his advice. They said: "No; we will have a king to reign over us." So Samuel chose as their king a tall young man named Saul, who was a farmer's son of the tribe of Benjamin. When Saul was brought before the people he stood head and shoulders above them all. And Samuel said: "Look at the man whom the Lord has chosen! There is not another like him among all the people!"
"Not yet, I think," responded James; "printer, news-dealer, news-carrier, and collector will be as much honor as any one of the Franklins can withstand at once"; and he had as little idea of the part Benjamin would play in the enterprise as the boy himself. There is no doubt that Benjamin had an idea that the paper might have in its columns some of his fugitive pieces, sooner or later.
God paid them in their own coin. They had caused Jacob to tear his clothes in his grief over Joseph, and now they were made to do the same on account of their own troubles. And as they rent their clothes for the sake of their brother Benjamin, so Mordecai, the descendant of Benjamin, was destined to rend his on account of his brethren, the people of Israel.
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