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"That he saw my husband stealing in the direction of the place where the wounded man was found, but a few moments before he was struck, wearing the same hat and hunting-jacket that the injured man testified was worn by his would-be assassin." "Oh!" Madeline knitted her brows in thought a moment; then "Was the coat and hat Mr. Girard's?"
By 1780 he was again in the shipping trade, his vessels plying between American ports and New Orleans and San Domingo; not the least of his profits, it was said, came from slave-trading. A troublous partnership with his brother, Captain Jean Girard, lasted but a short time; the brothers could not agree. At the dissolution in 1790 Stephen Girard's share of the profits amounted to $30,000.
He looked like a man who thoroughly knew his business; and had it not been for the solemn warning of the Foreign Secretary, and the risk for Maxine, I would gladly have put more efficient weapons in Girard's hands, by telling him everything. By the time that the detective had been primed with such facts and details as I could give, it was past ten o'clock.
As in other cases, so in this, the greatest degree of candor is usually found accompanying the greatest degree of knowledge. Nothing is more apt to be positive and dogmatical than ignorance. But there is no provision in any part of Mr. Girard's will for the introduction of any lay teaching on religious matters whatever.
"If our religious tenets should ever want a further elucidation, we shall not call on atheism to explain them. We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire." "We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is, by his constitution, a religious animal." Burke. It is not necessary for me to narrate, in detail, the numerous provisions of Mr. Girard's will.
She and Dosia went around, straightening up the little drawing-room, making it ready for Girard's occupancy pulling out a big chair for his use, and putting fresh books on the table. The maid had long ago gone to bed, and there was coffee to be made for him he might get hungry in the night. When he came in at last, he brought all the brightness and courage of hope with him.
Girard's view, religion is just that thing which Mr. Paine calls superstition. "Let us establish schools of morality," said he, "unfettered by religious tenets. Let us give these children a system of pure morals before they adopt any religion." The ancient régime of which Paine spoke as obnoxious was that of kings and priests.
Girard's bounty, at the expense of being excluded from all the means of religious instruction afforded to other children, and shut up through the most interesting period of their lives in a seminary without religion, and with moral sentiments as cold as its own marble walls. I now come to the consideration of the second part of this clause in the will, that is to say, the reasons assigned by Mr.
Girard's whole scheme to allow these children to go out and attend places of public worship on the Sabbath day, as it would be to have ministers of religion to preach to them within the walls; because, if they go out to hear preaching, they will hear just as much about religious controversies, and clashing doctrines, and more, than if appointed preachers officiated in the college.
"I have ever been a Democrat in principle myself, but not so much of a modern one in practice as to pretend that the Democratic party are free from blame as to the College. If they had been content with Mr. Girard's plain plan, would they have called in architects for others?
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