eloquent and high-toned principles of his distinguished grandparent, and of the noble patriotism of the long line of Quincys.

In Mr. Quincy's brief speech at the dinner table after the re-interment, April 19, 1835, of the men killed in the Battle of Lexington, whose remains at this time, after an eloquent address by Edward Everett, were placed in a sarcophagus under the monument in that town, I was impressed with his earnest, though modest and dignified manner, and his spirit so in harmony with that of the protomartyrs whom we that day commemorated. By request I had prepared the sentiment intended to draw from him what followed. It was in these words:

Josiah Quincy, Junior, who died April 26, 1775, among the first-born of the champions of American Liberty like the martyrs whose memory we this day venerate, he saw but the dawn of that light he prized higher than life. "His sons come to honor, but he knoweth it not." Peace to his ashes!

Mr. Quincy, then President of Harvard College, being called upon for a sentiment, remarked that, after what had been said by distinguished gentlemen, in the church and at the table, it would not be expected of him that he should make a display or a speech. It was a time for feeling, for thought, - not a moment to applaud; he should, therefore, simply reciprocate the sentiment

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of the chair: "The town of Lexington-where brave men are raised, and brave men honored."

The patriotism of Mr. Quincy shone out on every occasion suited to call it forth. He was filled with the spirit of the Revolution. It will be remembered that when the signers of the Declaration of Independence met for that momentous service, John Hancock said, as he affixed to it, the first in order, his own name: "We must be unanimous; we must hang together." "Yes," said Franklin," or hang separately." I heard President Quincy, at a public dinner, give this sentiment, which was received with unbounded enthusiasm: "The times of the Revolution, when the only question was shall we hang together, or hang separately."

His characteristic energy and wisdom were manifested during his whole administration of the college. He held personal intercourse with the students. He reformed the state of the Commons, made the fare of the students better, and thus broke up that old source of rebellions among the classes. The studies became more systematic, and electives began to take the place of compulsory work. The College was expanded to a University; the Law School was reorganized; Gore Hall was built, and the Library enlarged and made more secure from fire; an Observatory was established, and the quickened movements in other directions justified the subsequent remark of President Walker that" Mr. Quincy was the Great Organizer of the University."

Mr. Quincy, in speaking of the class of 1790, of Harvard College, of which he was a member, and its first scholar, says: "The most talented, taking light literature as the standard, was Joseph Dennie. His imagination was vivid, and he wrote with great ease and felicity." It was, I think, at this time that, although Mr. Dennie resided in Boston, he frequently visited Lexington, and he and my father, of about the same age, became acquainted with each other. I often heard him speak of Joseph Dennie as a delightful companion, full of mirth and repartee; his society was most agreeable to one of the same facetious disposition. He was a perfect gentleman, and attracted great interest among the ladies of that quiet town. I believe he married one of these his youthful associates.

Knowing well Mr. Quincy's public course in subsequent years, I can readily conceive his friendship in youth for those noble men of Boston, Samuel Dexter, George Cabot, Fisher Ames, Harrison Gray Otis, the Lowells, (father and son), Theophilus Parsons, John Adams and his eminent son, John Quincy Adams, and others of their circle. One who knew him later, and witnessed his Christian principle and rare magnanimity, cannot question that, in the heat of party strife, when the last named of this bright train left the Federal ranks, in which he and Mr. Quincy had always been the closest friends, Mr. Quincy wrote of his companion to his own wife: "I am glad you enter into no asperities such as you hear upon the char

acter of John Quincy Adams. He has just as good a right to his sentiments as I have to mine. He differs from his political friends, and is abused. Let us not join in the contumely. It can do us no good, and may do him some hurt." He could not always agree with Mr. Adams in his public course, but when he had been stricken down at the Capitol, and was no more, how touching and noble were these words taken from his daily journal:

February 25, 1848. I have to record the loss of the friend of my youth, of my manhood, and of my old age, John Quincy Adams on the spot where his eloquence had often triumphed, and where his varied powers were so often shown, and are now acknowledged. Friend of

my life, farewell! I owe you for many marks of favor and kindness. Many instances of your affection and interest for me are recorded in my memory, which death alone can obliterate.

The interest of Mr. Quincy in the Antislavery cause, partly for its dangers to our national liberties, began in his early life. While in the Massachusetts Senate, 1804-5, he took part in a movement for eliminating from the National Constitution the article which permitted the Slave States to count three fifths of their slaves as a part of their basis of representation. He more than once said to friends in conversation, in presence of one of his sons: "You and I may not live to see the day, but before that boy is off the stage, he will see this country torn in pieces by the fierce passions which are now sleeping." So true were

the prophetic instincts of this great man in regard to the day and the scenes of our recent Civil War.

The services of this devoted man cannot easily be exaggerated. The nation owes him a large debt. While he was in Congress the country was distressed by measures of the Democratic administration creating commercial restrictions, by the embargo, and by our being plunged into war with Great Britain. Mr. Quincy, a warm Federalist, took his stand firmly as a bold and eloquent opponent of all these measures. He represented with decision the feelings and the judgment of his constituents. He drew up the strong address of the minority of Congress; and his speeches were delivered with that dignity, power, and point which we, who in subsequent years heard his voice at home, feel sure must have made a deep and on all who were not arrayed against him by party hostility-a convincing impression. They are among the best political records of those eventful times. His broad and wise views, his mastery of all financial questions, his demand for a more perfect protection of our maritime rights, his just appreciation of our foreign relations, and the high-toned patriotism which pervaded his whole course, will excite the admiration of future generations. Among the very able men of those days he stood shoulder to shoulder, in counsel and in conduct, a peer of whom Rome or Sparta might have been proud.

During his Mayoralty in Boston, he was earnest