{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3297", "width": "2018", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "v*cr\\no\\nKit o\\n.0\\n,0 V\\nC\\nV\\nV** *^fe-\\n,0\\no \\\\T", "height": "3125", "width": "1861", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "J\\nJ* \u00c2\u00bbW7^\\nbV\\ny**\\nA\\n4 e", "height": "3177", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "BISHOP DOANE S\\nHISTORICAL ADDRESS.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "I\\ne (ftoo lg ffltvituQt of 3twt mm:\\nTHE FIRST ANNUAL ADDRESS\\nBEFORE\\nTHE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY;\\nAT THEIR MEETING, IN TRENTON,\\nON THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1846;\\nTHE RIGHT REV, GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE,D.D., LL.D S\\nBISHOP OF NEW JEHSEY.\\nBuvliuflton:\\nrnrxTEP nv.^WtiTNn MOB IS,\\nc/", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "*c\\nFLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN.\\nForbear to deem the chronicler unwise,\\nUngentle, or untouched by seemly ruth,\\nWho, gathering up all that time s envious tooth\\nHas spared of sound and grave realities,\\nFirmly rejects those dazzling flatteries,\\nDear as they are to unsuspecting youth,\\nThat might have drawn down Clio from the skies,\\nHer rights to claim, and vindicate the truth\\nHer faithful servants, while she walked with men,\\nWere they, who, not unmindful of their sire,\\nAll-ruling Jove, whate er their theme might be\\nRevered her mother, sage Mnemosyne.\\nAnd, at the Muses will, invoked the lyre\\nTo animate, but not mislead, the pen. wordsworth.\\nV\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2v", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Newark, Jan. 16/A, 1846.\\nBishop Doane;\\nDear Sir At the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey His-\\ntorical Society, held at Trenton, yesterday, immediately after the de-\\nlivery by you of the First Annual Address, on motion of the Rev. Dr.\\nMiller, of Princeton, it was unanimously resolved as follows, viz\\nResolved, That the thanks of the Society be given to Bishop\\nDoane, for the excellent and eloquent Address which he has just\\ndelivered, and that he be requested to furnish a copy for publi-\\ncation.\\nAllow me to add my individual desire that the request of the So-\\nciety may be complied with.\\n1 am, dear Sir,\\nRespectfully and truly yours, c.\\nJoseph P. Bradley\\nRecording Secretary of N. J. HisUSoc.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "THB JEQSET HOMESTEAD.\\nI fain would have, if I might choose,\\nA mansion, such as farmers use,\\nOf sound old stone, with hanging eaves,\\nAnd casements clambered o er with leaves\\nFair, but not fine, of ancient guise\\nThere shadowing elms around should rise\\nFull barns, clean stables nor forgot\\nClear springs, and dairy, cool as grot.\\nAbout the pile, in thought, I view\\nA spreading lawn of freshest hue\\nAnd, stretching back, in stately mien,\\nA garden, with its alleys green\\nWhere every herb and every fruit,\\nThat may a healthful palate suit,\\nShall grow in concord with each flower\\nThat may beseem a Jersey bower.\\nThen, let a rippling brook flow by,\\nOn whose green margin there may lie\\nAt intervals, a well-hewn seat,\\nFor pause, amid the noon-tide heat;\\nAnd here and there, as good may seem,\\nBroad willows weeping o er the stream,\\nOr locusts, where, in balmy June,\\nThe bees may hum their sleepy tune.\\nSuch be the centre of my reign,\\nWhence to survey my fair domain;\\nBut reaching far on every side\\nMeadow and field in circuit wide,\\nAnd sombre groves, and thicket grey,\\nWhere I may fly at height of dajf.\\nO er the enamell d sward, let stray\\nThe herd and flock, at food or play\\nWhile thrift, and temperance, and care,\\nShall turn the clod, and drive the share,\\nAnd sow and reap the golden store,\\nTill winter close the massy door.\\nThen, when long nights begin to bring\\nAround the fire, the cheerful ring,\\nThe crackling billets, flaming high,\\nShall send a gleam to every eye,\\nOf happy inmates round the hearth,\\nFull of warm cheer and healthful mirth,\\nHere let the hoary grandsirc bask,\\nAnd grandame hug her wintry task,\\nAnd hardy urchin plan his snare,\\nAnd chubby girl her doll prepare,\\nAnd John, with school-boy tone, rehearse\\nThe newest tale, in prose or verse.\\nSuch, to the Jersey yeomen free,\\nSuch comforts may there ever be\\nRev. J. W, Alexandek.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TO THE HONOURABLE\\nJOSEPH C. IIORNBLOWER,\\nChief Justice op New Jersey\\nsustaining the institutions of his native state,\\nupon the bench,\\nwhile he adorns them, in the daily walks of life\\nthis first anniversary address,\\nbefore the society, of which ne is the first president^\\nis respectfully inscribed.\\nRiverside, 15 January, mdcccxlvi.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Gay creatures sweet, though mournful, tis to see\\nHow each prefers a garland from that tree,\\nWhich brings to mind her childhood s charmed day,\\nAnd the dear fields and friendships far away,\\nSees called up round her, by these magic scents,\\nThe well, the camels, and her father s tents;\\nSighs for the home she left with little pain,\\nAnd wishes e en its sorrows back again.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lalla rookh.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ADDRESS.\\nI never shall forget, with what a strange and start-\\nled joy, I stopped, and stood, and gazed, upon a few\\nblack letters, on a plain deal board, at the corner of a\\nstreet, in the old English town of Lincoln. I had\\nbeen musing, beneath the Roman archway, called the\\nNewport Gate, 1 of the ever-changing stream of life,\\nwhich had not ceased to roll through it for twice ten\\ncenturies and, busied with my thoughts, had wan-\\ndered off alone. When, as I climbed the steep as-\\ncent, on which the town is built, 2 lifting my eyes up\\nfrom the ground, near the Danes Gate, they were\\narrested by the words, New Jersey. 8 It scarcely\\nis a figure to say, that, in an instant, my heart was\\nin my mouth. Romans, Danes, English, all were\\ngone. I doubted of my very sense of sight. It seem-\\ned some mirage of the mind. Country, and friends,\\nand home, were all before me. My\\neyes\\nWere with my heart, and that was far away.\\nI stood, a Jerseyman, and in New Jersey.\\n1 The ancient Archway, called the J\\\\ cwport Gate, at Lincoln, Britton\\nsays, is a specimen of Roman execution, and consists of very large stones,\\nplaced together arch-wise, and without mortar. The whole is rudely con-\\nstructed, but of such substantial materials, that it seems to defy all the op-\\nerations of time and weather. Architectural Antiquities, v. 158. The width\\nof the archway is fifteen feet, nine inches its height, twelve feet, four in-\\nches diminished very much, no doubt, by the filling up of the street. Lin-\\ncoln is probably from the name of the ancient Roman Station, Lindum Colonia.\\n2 Too steep to be ascended by carriages; which make use of a circular\\nroad, round the face of the hill, without the city.\\n9 I enquired, in vain, why the street, or court, should be called .Veto Jer-\\nsey. No one knew. Childc Harold, iv. 141.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nI do not speak of this as if it were at all peculiar.\\nI know that it is not. The Swiss guards, in a foreign\\nland, who dared all dangers, and bore all privations,\\nwere melted to desertion, if they heard the simple\\nnative song with which the cows were brought from\\npasture. 4\\nThe intrepid Swiss, who guards a foreign 6hore,\\nCondemned to climb his mountain-cliffs no more,\\nIf chance he hears that song, so sweetly wild,\\nWhich on those cliffs his infant hours beguiled,\\nMelts at the long-lost scenes that round him rise,\\nAnd sinks, a martyr to repentant sighs. 5\\nNo it is not peculiar. I cite it as a fact in na-\\nture. It is a part of our humanity. A touch of that\\nwhich makes the world all kin so that the man who\\nfelt it not, would scarce be owned of human kind.\\nAnd I cite it now, because it indicates, as no elabo-\\nrate dissertation could, the ground on which I stand\\nto day, and the feelings with which I stand on it;\\nthe feelings and the ground, which, if our coming\\nhere is not to be in vain, you must share with me, as\\nJerseymen, and in New Jersey. Let me not, for\\none moment, be misunderstood. I yield to no man\\n4 Rans des vaches; that is, rows of cows. One can see them winding along,\\namong the rocks of their wild pasture ground.\\n6 Rogers, Pleasures of Memory, first part. In his notes, he has the follow-\\ning. The celebrated Hans des vaches cet air si cheri des Suisses qu il\\nfut defendu, sous peine de mort, de la jouer dans Ieur troupes, parce qu il fai-\\nsoit foudre en larmes, deserter ou mourir ceux qui l entendoient, tant il exci-\\ntoit en eux l ardent desir de revoir leur pays. Rousseau. The maladie de\\npays is as old as the human heart. Juvenal s little cup-bearer,\\nSuspirat longo non visam tempore matrem,\\nEt casulam, et notos tristis desiderat hcedos;\\nand the Argive, in the heat of battle,\\ndulces moriens reminiscitur Argos.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "9\\nin the Catholic comprehension, which takes in the\\nworld. I teach no truth more earnestly, than that\\nwhich filled and fired the fervent soul of Paul; that,\\nin the plan of God, for human good, there should be\\nno Jew, no Greek, no Scythian, no Barbarian, but\\nall one in Jesus Christ. 1 But I remember David s\\nlonging for the water of that ancient well, by the\\ntown-gate, where he had bathed his boyhood s brow. 2\\nI remember how Paul yearned for his brethren, his\\nkinsmen according to the flesh and, if need were,\\nwould even be accursed for them. 3 And I remem-\\nber and I speak it with profoundest reverence\\nhow that blessed One, who gave Himself a ransom\\nfor all, when He was come near Jerusalem, behold-\\ning it, wept over it 4 To love our neighbour as\\nourself, is not to sink the brother or the child. Jesus\\nhad one disciple, whom He loved. The house\\nwill soon be chilled, in which the hearth-fires are\\ngone out. There were no Nile, to fatten Egypt, if\\nthe fountains were not full. Trust not to his philan-\\nthropy, who is not filial as a son, and faithful as a\\nfriend. He can be no American, who is not more a\\nJerseyman.\\nMr. President, and Gentlemen of the Historical\\nSociety,\\nI have left you at no loss as to the line I mean to\\ntake to-day. I have come here, as a Jerseyman, to\\nspeak to Jersey men, about New Jersey. So far as\\nlies in me, I wish to make a jersey rally. I have\\ni Every where. Especially, Galatiana iii. 28, and Colossians iii. 11.\\n8 2 Samuel xxiii. 15. 8 Romans ix. 3. St. Luke xix. 41.\\n2", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\noften regretted that that rich old word, the Common-\\nwealth, should have been dropped, so generally, for\\nthe meagre and unmeaning monosyllable, State.\\nNames are not things and yet they go together.\\nMen never disregard the name, when they esteem\\nthe thing. Nor do they often keep the thing, when\\nthey have lost the name. There has been quite too\\nlittle, in us, of the true notion of a common wealth. We\\nlack community of feeling. We are of Trenton, or\\nof Newark, or of Burlington. We are of East Jer-\\nsey, or of West Jersey. 1 We are not all Jerseymen.\\nThere is scarcely such a thing acknowledged, as a\\nJersey interest. We are, as far as we well can be,\\nwithout State institutions, 2 State objects, State influ-\\nences, State aims. We do not sympathize. We rarely\\ncongregate. We fail to co-operate. It was a saying\\n1 The whole of the country, now known as New York and New Jersey, was\\ngranted by Charles II. to his brother, the Duke of York, in 1664. The Duke\\nconveyed the part now called New Jersey, to the Earl of Berkeley and Sir\\nGeorge Carteret. Sir George had been Governor of the Island of Jersey.\\nThe name of New Jersey or, as they liked to call it, Neo-Casarea was\\ngiven to the province, as a compliment to him. The province was to go\\nin equal parts: the I) astern, to Carteret; the Western, to Berkeley. Hence\\nthe division of East Jersey and West Jersey. Strange to say, the line is by no\\nmeans certain. Gordon, on the Map in his Gazetteer and History of New\\nJersey, lays down two lines Keith s, run in 1687; and Lawrence s, run in\\n1743. The difference between them is half a million of acres; one ninth of\\nthe whole area of the state. If I could find the line, I should like well enough.\\nto rub it out. It was the Lady of Sir George Carteret, of whom Pepys says, in\\nhis simple way Thence to my house, where I took great pride to lead her\\nthrough the Court, by the hand, she being- very fine, and her page carrying\\nUp her train. Memoirs i. 284.\\nI take pleasure in recording here one noble exception which I could\\nnot so well speak of in the body of the Address the establishment, last year,\\nof a State Lunatic Asylum. It is on the noblest plan, and is going vi-\\ngorously on.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\nof Dr. Franklin, that New Jersey was like a cider\\nbarrel, tapped at both ends. It has been too liter-\\nally true. We have been too well content to lose\\nourselves in the broad shadows of the two great\\nstates, which stretch on either side of us. We have\\nbeen too willing to become but little more than an\\nappendage to the two chief cities, which lie upon us,\\non the right, and on the left. Our young men have\\nbeen too ready to exchange their native name, for\\nthat of some more prominent member of our great\\nconfederacy. 1 Our vigorous minds, our skilful hands,\\nour generous hearts, have gone abroad too much, to\\nbuild up other states, and to advance other interests. 2\\nWe have well nigh forgotten that we have a history.\\nWe have almost lost the very sense of our identity.\\nWe have had no centre. We have made no rally.\\nFor these things, I have long desired the establish-\\nment of a Historical Society as that which was\\nmost likely to bring us all together, and to bring us\\nout. For these things, I rejoiced when this Society\\nwas started and that with such a full and vigorous\\npromise of success. For these things, I consented to\\nstand here. It is my firm belief that in all that con-\\nstitutes the essence of a commonwealth in resources,\\ni Gordon speaks feelingly on thi6 subject. The State has been an officina\\ngentium, a hive of nations, constantly sending out swarms, whose labours have\\ncontributed largely to build up the two greatest marts in the Union, and to sub-\\ndue and fertilize the Western wilds. Instead, therefore, of being distinguished\\nfor the growth of numbers within her borders, she is remarkable for the pauci-\\nty of their increase. 29-\\n2 Burlington county, at one period, supplied Philadelphia with both Mayor\\nand Recorder; Benjamin W.Richards Esq., and Joseph M llvaine Esq. Tho\\nfacile principes of the Bar, in the city of iSew Vork, David B. Ogden Esq.,\\nand George Wood Esq., are native Jereeymen.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nin opportunities, in capabilities for happiness and in-\\nfluence with men New Jersey stands unrivalled in\\nthis great confederacy. And I believe as firmly, that\\nthe reason why these gifts of God are not developed,\\nfor His glory, and the good of men, as they might\\nbe, and should have been, is, that Jerseymen have\\nnever acted on a Jersey feeling. They have not just-\\nly estimated their great advantages. They have not\\nfaithfully discharged their corresponding duties. Will\\nyou contemplate with me our goodly heritage,\\nas Jerseymen Will you consider with me our just\\nresponsibilities, as such? My appeal to you, my fel-\\nlow citizens, is in the spirit of that old Greek adage,\\nl7rd^rccv iKct-^g rcwrotv Kocpu. 1 That is to say, being in-\\nterpreted your lot has fallen to you in New Jersey;\\nbestir yourselves to make the best of it.\\nUnfold with me the map of the United States. Di-\\nrect your eye along the sloping line of the Atlantic\\ncoast, until it reach well nigh the centre. Select\\nwhat seems the snuggest, sunniest nook, in all that\\ngraceful sweep. Rest, where a noble river makes\\nalmost an island with the ocean; washing its utmost\\nlength, and giving, to every pine that crowns the\\nsummit of its farthest mountain, a passage to the sea.\\nIt is the lot of our inheritance. Examine it more\\nclosely. See how the mountains rivet it upon the\\nmainland, at the North. See how their tall and rug-\\nged peaks sink down and soften, in the gentle swells,\\nand genial vallies, of the middle counties. See what\\n1 It is quoted by Cicero, in a letter to Atticus the sixth of the fourth\\nbook. Erasmus says, Adraonet adagium, ut quamcumque provinciam eri-\\nmus forte nacti, ei nos accommodemus, proque huju\u00c2\u00bb dignitate nos geramns.\\nJ rovcrbiorum Epitome, 639.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\na stretch of coast, until the vast alluvial vanishes\\naway into the broad Atlantic. Is there a question\\nabout climate I am satisfied that if the arc of high-\\nest points, for health, and comfort, and enjoyment, on\\nthe map of North America, could be described, it\\nwould sweep through New Jersey. 1 There is no bet-\\nter test of this than in the abundance, and variety,\\nand perfection, of its fruits. This was the theme of\\nadmiration with the earliest settlers of the country,\\nand deserves to be so still. I have seen orchards,\\none writes home, in 16^0, laden with fruit, to ad-\\nmiration their very limbs torn to pieces with the\\nweight, and most delicious to the taste, and lovely to\\nbehold I have seen an apple tree, from a pippin\\nkernel, yield a barrel of curious cyder; and peaches\\nin such plenty that some people took their carts a\\npeach-gathering I could not but smile at the con-\\n1 A good illustration of the healthiness of New Jersey, however homely its\\nexpression, occurs in a letter from John Cripps to Henry Stacy, written from\\nBurlington, on Delaware River, the 26th of the eighth month, 1677. Hero\\nis good land enough lies void, would serve manv thousands of families; and we\\nthink if they cannot live here, they can hardly live in any place in the worl.1.\\nThe country and air seems to be very agreeable to our bodies, and we have\\ngood stomachs to our victuals {Smith, History of New Jersey, 104.) The\\nair of Burlington has not changed, in this last respect, in 180 years. Nor is it\\nless true now than then, that we have good victuals to our stomachs. It may be\\nsaid, in passing, that the first settlement in West Jersey was at Salem, in 1675,\\nby John Fenwick and his companions, who came from London, in the Griffith.\\nThe second ship was the Kent, also from London. The third was the Willing\\nMind, from London. The fourth, the Martha, from Burlington, in Yorkshire.\\nBurlington was laid out in 1677. It was called first New Beverly, then Brid-\\nlington. This latter was the early name of Burlington, in England. The first\\nship that came up to Burlington, was the Shield, from Hull, in 1678. Against\\nCoaquannock, where Philadelphia now is, being a bold shore, she went bo\\nnear, in turning, that part of the tackling struck the trees. 8ome on board re-\\nmarked, it was a fineopot for a town. Smith, 10S.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nceit of it. They are a very delicate fruit, and hang\\nalmost like our onions that are tied on ropes. My\\nbrother Robert had as many cherries this year as\\nwould have loaded several carts. It is my judgment,\\nby what I have observed, that fruit trees in this\\ncountry destroy themselves by the very weight of\\nthe fruit. 1 This is a picture from the life, as all\\nwho hear me know. Is the enquiry about agricul-\\ntural productions What can be named, of food, for\\nman or beast, in which New Jersey is deficient? 2\\nMahlon Stacy s letter from Burlington, 26th of fourth month, 1680, to\\nhis brother Revell. He dwells upon the fruits, as a man of good taste might.\\nWe have, from the time called May, until Michaelmas, great store of very\\ngood wild fruits, as strawberries, cranberries, and hurtleberries, which are like\\nour bilberries in England, but far sweeter. They are very wholesome fruits.\\nThe cranberries much like cherries for colour and bigness, which may be kept\\ntill fruit come in again an excellent sauce is made of them for venison, tur-\\nkeys, and other great fowl, and they are better to make tarts than either goose-\\nberries or cherries. Smith, 112. In another letter, to William Cook, of\\nSheffield, and others, he writes, This is a most brave place; whatever envy or\\nevil spies may speak of it, I could wish you all here. I never repented my\\ncoming hither, nor yet remembered thy arguments and out-cry against New\\nJersey, with regret. I live as well to my content, and in as great plenty as\\never I did, and in a far more likely way to get an estate. Smith, 114.\\n2 The first settlers of New Jersey had a shrewd eye to its agricultural capa-\\nbilities, which has not been disappointed. Well, here is a brave country,\\nwrites Samuel Groome, Surveyor General of East Jersey, in 1685, the\\nground very fruitful, and wonderfully inclinable to English grass, as clover c.\\nIn short, the land is four times better than I expected. Smith, 174. And\\nGawin Lawrie, deputy Governor of East Jersey, under Robert Barclay, writes,\\nall things very plenty: land very good as ever I saw. John Barclay and\\nothers, write from Elizabethtown: We see little wanting that a man can desire,\\nand we are sure that a sober and industrious people might make this a rich\\ncountry, and enrich themselves by it. Smith, 183. It is to their statement\\nthat Bancroft alludes; Peaches and vines grew wild on the river sides the\\nwoods were crimsoned with strawberries; and brave oysters abounded along\\nthe shore. Brooks and rivulets, with curious clear water, were as plenty as\\nin the dear native Scotland.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nNay, and she never can be, if her farmers mind their\\nbusiness. Limestone and Marl divide the land be-\\ntween them. The very rocks are made to fertilize\\nthe soil which lies upon them; or the mouldering\\nshell-fish, of the world before the flood, convert the\\nworthless sand-waste into fields of smiling corn. Fa-\\ncilities of transportation, constantly increasing, ra-\\npidly equalize the land and soon will bring it all\\ninto successful cultivation. While the river or the\\ncreek, the railroad or canal, that spreads the lime or\\nmarl upon the fields, takes down the corn or wheat,\\nthe butter or the pork, to the insatiable market of the\\ncities and the ports of foreign export. Such are the\\nagricultural advantages of New Jersey, that the Mas-\\nsachusetts State Commissioner, now travelling in\\nforeign countries, on enquiries in the line of his de-\\npartment, has habitually advised young men, from\\nthe New England states, to come and settle here\\nthe climate and the soil yielding to equal labour a\\nlarger return of profit and of comfort, than in any\\nother state in our whole Union. Nay, and old\\nOcean smiles, and yields his treasures for our cul-\\nture. The oysters that one wrote, from Perth Am-\\nboy, in 1684, would serve all England, 2 are still\\nthere and in plantations to supply the world. Is\\nthe enquiry of our mineral resources They are in-\\nnumerable and inexhaustible. 3 Marble, of every\\n1 This agrees with what Barclay anJ others said, in 1684. We see that\\npeople here want nothing, and yet their labour is vrry small.\\n2 At Amboy Point, and several other places, there is abundance of brave\\noysters. Smith, 184. The very shells, as lime, quicken our fields into fertility.\\nSee the valuable Report of the State Geologist, Professor Henry D. Rogeri,\\non the Geology of New Jersey.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\nkind, and every quality. Slate, in abundance. Va-\\nrieties of clay, for every use, up to the finest porce-\\nlain. A free-stone, from New Jersey, rears, at the\\nhead of the great mart of commerce in our Western\\nworld, a Christian Church, of noblest, most impres-\\nsive architecture; which, if it could, would lift the\\nhearts of men up with their eyes to heaven. 1 The\\nrichest ores of iron copper, in singular purity rare\\nstores of zinc. In very deed, a land whose stones\\nare iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig\\nbrass. 2 Are the results of useful art the subject of\\ninvestigation With such a store of raw materials,\\nin every kind with water power, incalculable with\\ncoal, in inexhaustible supplies, lying at the very door;\\nwith skilful heads and vigorous hands to turn them\\nall to best account, there is no branch of manufac-\\ntures which is not, or may not be, made available to\\nJerseymen. Paterson, and Newark, and Belleville,\\nand Dover, and Trenton, and Bridgeton, need but\\nsufficient capital and enterprise to be our Manches-\\nter, our Sheffield, and our Birmingham. While, for\\ncommercial purposes, inland and foreign, our noble\\ncanals, our most efficient railroads, the majestic Del-\\naware, the broad Atlantic New York and Phila-\\ndelphia, as much our ports, as if they lay upon our\\nwaters give us at once a vast home market, and\\nthe market of mankind.\\nAnd these are but the outside of the case. We pos-\\nsess, in a degree unrivalled, every form of civil, so-\\ni The stone of which Trinity Church, New York, is built, is from Lit-\\ntle Falls, near Paterson, in this State. Deuteronomy viii. 9.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\ncial, moral, and political advantage. What can be\\nhappier than our geographical position We are\\nfree from the burden which bears down the South-\\nern States, visiting the fathers sins upon the chil-\\ndren, and yet have not to struggle with the rigours\\nand reverses of the surly North. Our social posture\\nis a happy mean between the two. There are not the\\ncarking care and unrelaxed devotion to the work-day\\nworld, which mark the people of New England;\\nnor yet the apathy and languor which deaden hu-\\nman energy, in lower latitudes, and in a different\\nstate of social life. A happy moderation is the char-\\nacteristic of our people. There is neither extreme,\\namong us, of riches or of poverty. A competence is\\neasy to obtain. The general seek no more. The\\nchildren start from very nearly the same level\\nwith their parents and leave to theirs to do the\\nsame. A great accumulation is but rare. Pro-\\nportionally rare the fashions and the follies which\\nare apt to follow in its train. A more contented,\\nhappier people, in their home relations, is not\\nshone on by the Sun. The absence of any great\\ncity, or large town, is an advantage to the State. It\\nwould destroy the equilibrium of the body politic. It\\nwould control by influence, or else perpetuate dissen-\\ntion. We have the advantages of two, with but a\\nsmall share of the disadvantages of any. It is not\\ntheir least benefit to us, that, by the overshadowing\\nof their greatness, they make rivalry in us impossi-\\nble. The historic annals of our State are in a spe-\\ncial manner free from stain. They record no breach\\nof faith with the poor Indian. They bear no re-", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\ncord of religious persecution. There is no blood up-\\non them, but that which liberty demands and conse-\\ncrates; the blood which patriot freemen offer, as a\\npure libation, for their fire-sides and their altars.\\nNo man to be arrested, condemned, imprisoned, or\\nmolested, in his estate or liberty, but by twelve men\\nof the neighbourhood; no man to lie in prison for\\ndebt, but that his estate satisfy as far as it will go,\\nand be set at liberty to work no person to be called\\nin question or molested for his conscience, or for wor-\\nshipping according to his conscience, 1 was, from the\\nearliest times, the alphabet of freedom, in New Jer-\\nsey. And they were good at spelling with it. When\\nfive per cent, upon the invoice of all imports from the\\nmother land was charged upon the settlers, the ar-\\ngument of Samuel Jenings, a brave old Schoolmas-\\nter, in this behalf, as the Lord Cornbury found, was\\nin this fashion. Tell us the title, by what right or\\nlaw we are thus used that may a little mitigate our\\npain. Your answer hitherto hath been, that it was\\na conquered country and that the King being the\\nconqueror, he has power to make laws, raise money,\\n,c, and that this power the King hath vested in the\\nDuke, and by that right and sovereignty the Duke\\ndemands the custom we complain of. But suppose\\nthe King were an absolute conqueror in the case de-\\npending, doth his power extend equally over his own\\nEnglish people, as over the conquered? Are not\\nthey some of the letters that make up the word, con-\\nqueror? Did Alexander conquer alone? Or Csesar\\n1 Instructions from the Proprietors, in 1676.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\nbeat by himself? The Norman Duke used not\\nthe companions of his victory so ill. Natural right\\nand human prudence oppose such doctrine, all the\\nworld over. 1 The hundred years which followed,\\nto the war of independence, did not put out this fire.\\nNew Jersey was the Flanders of the Revolution.\\nThe foot of war was not removed from off her plains,\\nfor more than one year of the seven. Scarcely an\\nacre of her soil but shared the fortunes of the fight.\\nWhile Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, are house-\\nhold words, for childrens children, to the latest gen-\\neration: among\\nthe few, the immortal names,\\nThat were not born to die.\\nWhere can be found a simpler, less expen-\\nsive, more beneficial, administration of government?\\nWhere is a state less conversant with debt? What\\npeople are more lightly taxed 2 Where are the\\nlaws more equal or more certain Where are they\\nmore effectively sustained and cheerfully obeyed\\nWhere is another instance of a state, laying aside the\\n1 Argument addressed to the Commissioners of the Duke of York, concern-\\ning the customs demanded in West New Jersey. Smith, 129. Jenings was\\nafterwards Deputy Governor. He was Speaker of the Assembly, during Lord\\nCorubury s administration. When the Assembly remonstrated against some\\nacts of his administration, Jenings, as Speaker, delivered the remonstrance:\\nThe Governor frequently interrupted him with, Stop What a that at the\\nsame lime putting on a countenance of authority and sternness, with intention\\nto confound him. With due submission, yet firmness, whenever interrupted, he\\ncalmly desired leave to read the passages over again, and did it wilh an addi-\\ntional emphasis on those most complaining; so that, on the second reading, they\\nbecame more observable than before. Smith, 295.\\n1 Governor Stralton s Message, just delivered, shows for the current year a\\nbalance of seventy thousand dollars, to meet extraordinary expenses. The\\nState tax averages but about ten cents a head, on the whole population.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\nbadges and the names, the principles and prejudices\\nof party; and, by the hands of her choice men, delib-\\nerately, dispassionately, resolvedly reforming her\\nframe of government making no sacrifice to popu-\\nlar favour or partisan distinctions, and quietly, and as\\none man, passing from a Colonial Charter to an in-\\ndependent constitution r\\nSuch is a dim and shadowy outline of our good-\\nly heritage, as jerseymen. It is for you, dear\\nfriends, to fill it up, and grave it deeply in your\\nhearts, and gild it with the blessed radiance that\\nlights up your happy hearths and homes. It is for\\nyou to own the fulness of your debt, and prove your\\ndepth of grateful love, by the discharge of the high\\nduties and immense responsibilities to God, your\\ncountry, and the generations yet to come, that it may\\nbe an heritage forever. This is our Sparta. It is for\\nus to make the best of it. The time would fail me to\\npoint out the ways, in which the duties and the debt\\nof citizenship, are to be owned and paid. Nor need\\nI do it. If your hearts have risen with mine to the\\nappreciation of our great and gracious privileges,\\nthey will be swift to own them, and intuitive in skill\\nto magnify and to perpetuate them. It needs no\\ngreat exertion. It calls for no specific effort. It\\nasks no signal sacrifice. It is in daily duties, and\\nhabitual services, and unconscious influences, that it\\nis most effectively performed. As, by the hearth of\\nhome, the tender charities of life spring up, spon-\\n1 The history of the late Convention, to revise the Constitution of New Jer-\\nsey, is without a parallel.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\ntaneous and uncounted, in the light of mutual love.\\nI gratefully acknowledge that the last few years have\\nseen much progress in this great result, Traversing\\nannually its length and breadth, I witness every year\\nnew marks of progress, and new trophies of improve-\\nment. 1 The work, that might have been set down\\nfor half a century, ten years have well nigh done.\\nImproved appliances in agriculture are every where\\nin hand. Improved facilities in transportation are\\nevery where encouraging their application. An in-\\nterest in horticulture is touching all the landscape\\nwith a new and gentler grace. The efforts of the new\\nSociety, for its promotion, begin to be appreciated.\\nThe day is hastening, when it may not need a poet s\\neye to find the garden of the Hesperides, at Newark,\\nor at Princeton. 2 In architecture, too, there is a mark-\\ned advancement. It is beginning to be felt, that the\\nhouse of God need not be mean or homely. The\\ntaste of private individuals is dotting all our towns\\nand rural nooks with homes, where comfort dwells\\nwith beauty. And here, the transformation of the\\nState House so appropriate, so convenient, so com-\\nmanding, such perfect fitness, and such admirable\\n1 It was Mr. Clay, I believe, who spoke of New Jersey, as the State of\\nbeautiful Villages. And with what truth! Few know how much and vari-\\ned in its beauty New Jersey is; because few know much of the State, but by\\nthe railroads. There is noihing in its kind more worthy of a visit than the\\nscenery of the Water Gop. The counties of Warren, HunterJon, and Mor-\\nris, are no where surpassed in richness and variety of prospect. Long Branch\\nand Cape May, are the most favoured and favourite resorts, in the whole land,\\nfor the beauties and the comforts of the Sea.\\n2 As in the beautiful grounds of the Hon. Mr. Wright, and Mr. Norris, at\\nthe former; and at Fieldwood shall I not say 1 near the latter. Mr. Field is\\nthe President of the New Jersey Horticultural Society, which owes very much\\nto his zealous interest in its objects.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\ntaste more than redeems the past, and gives a noble\\npromise for the future.\\nThe life of a State is in the past and in the fu-\\nture. The State that does not honour its illustrious\\ndead, and make provision for the full and perfect\\ntraining of its children, is derelict of duty; and must\\nendure its penalty, in the oblivion of the past, and in\\ndisorganization for the future. A State must have its\\nimmortality on earth. Its past must give the colour to\\nits future. As that future becomes past, the dies\\nwill deepen, and the retribution be more fierce. The\\nState that sows the wind must reap the whirlwind.\\nAn inglorious past will earn a more inglorious fu-\\nture. Neglected children will become unhonoured\\nfathers. A spring time, without sowing, brings\\nan autumn, without harvest. In both these two re-\\nspects, New Jersey has been signally deficient.\\nShe has done what in her lay to have no history.\\nAs William Penn, in 1676, found it essential to begin\\na letter to his friends and brethren, with the assurance\\nthat there is such a province as New Jersey, is cer-\\ntain; 1 so, but for maps and school geographies, the\\nfact might still be deemed apocryphal. There is no\\nCalendar of patriots and heroes in New Jersey. The\\nrecord of her sons, so far as she has seemed to care,\\nhas been allowed to perish with them. Where are\\nthe statues of the founders of the State? Where is\\nthe gallery of portraits of the statesmen and the sol-\\ndiers of the war of Independence Where is the re-\\ngistry, more authentic than the Almanac, to give\\nthe names and dates, that shall identify a Livingston,\\nSmith, 89", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\na Schuyler, a Stockton, or a Southard? Where are\\nthe ancient records of the first enterprises in this old\\ncolony? Where are the household letters, stained\\nwith many a tear, that told of troubles, and of trials,\\nborne in unrepining patience, through the hope that\\nis in Christ Where are the papers, filled with\\nthoughts that breathe and words that burn, that\\nwrought the way for the great struggle of the nation, or\\nrecorded its encouragements and triumphs? It is not\\nrash to say, that no one state, in all the old thirteen,\\nwas richer in these holy relics of the past; that\\nnone is now so poor. In this respect, another era\\nhas, I trust, begun. To you, gentlemen of the His-\\ntorical Society, successive generations will look back\\nwith gratitude, as patriot preservers of their ancestral\\nfame. A volume of colonial history, the work of a\\nson of New Jersey, produced and published while\\nyour first year had not filled its round, is your free\\npledge to all your kind, that you are in earnest in\\nthe cause and that, what your enterprise can rescue\\nand preserve, is sure and safe. I offer you, for this\\ngood work, the thanks and the congratulations of\\nyour countrymen. 1\\n1 History of East Jersey, under the Proprietary Governments a Narrative\\nof events connected with the settlement and progress of the Province, until the\\nsurrender of the government to the Crown, in 1702, l y Wm. A. Whitehead,\\nof Newark; with an Appendix, consisting of The Model of the Government\\nof East New Jersey in America, hy George Scot of Pitlochie, re-printed for the\\nfirst time from the original edition of 1 G85. The sheets of this volume, a per-\\nfect beauty in typography, were circulated at the annual meeting, Will Mr,\\nWhitehead permit me to remind him that one good turn deserves another;\\nthat having done so well for East Jersey, he is now to do the same for \\\\A est\\nthat it will then remain for him to bring the 6tory down, from the period of their\\nanion, to the adoption of the new Stale Constitution", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nI blush to say, that in the cause of education, New\\nJersey does herself no justice. She is not careful of\\nher children. Her children will not care for her.\\nUnfilial sons are the sure progeny of an unnatural\\nmother. Of the two learned institutions of the State,\\nI speak with an unfeigned respect. x They have done\\nnoble service for the country. No prouder names, in\\narts or arms, in science or in letters, in the halls of\\ngovernment, or in the sanctuaries of our religion,\\nadorn the annals of America, than those whom they\\nhave sent forth from their venerable walls. And\\nthey are now discharging their high function, with\\nan ability, a fidelity, and a success, which set them\\nin the first rank of the institutions of our land. But\\nwhat share has the State in all this honor What\\nhas the State done, what is the State now doing, to\\nencourage and assist them in their work? New\\nJersey, as a State, does nothing for the arts, does\\nnothing for science, does nothing for letters. She\\nscarcely recognizes that she has a child. She virtu-\\nally denies it, in her almost total disregard even of\\ntheir elementary education. This is a burning\\nshame. The brand of it is on our brow. Shall we\\nsubmit to bear it We cannot, and not so approve\\nourselves traitors to God and man, in the neglect of\\nmeans and opportunities, such as no other State in\\nall the Union has. New Jersey ought to be, what\\nAthens was to Greece, the eye of our confederacy. In\\nher central position, in the facilities of access to her,\\nin the salubrity of her climate, in the moderate con-\\ndition of her people, in the absence of absorbing in-\\nThe College of New Jersey, at Princeton, incorporated in 1746; and Rut-\\nger s College, at New Brunswick, in 1770.", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "25\\nterests, in her simplicity of manners, in the serene\\nseclusion of her beautiful retreats, in every thing that\\nthe broad name of nature comprehends, New Jersey\\nis the State for education. In some States, commerce,\\nin some, agriculture, in some, manufactures, may\\nbe the leading interest. Ours should be education.\\nFrom Carpenter s Point to Cape May, New Jersey\\nshould be studded all with Schools. Academies and\\nhigher institutions should adorn and bless her larger\\ntowns. Her Colleges should be supplied with all\\nappliances and means, to boot, to carry out the work\\nto its most comprehensive range, and up to its most\\nlofty elevation. Above all, these things should be\\nconsecrated to God, in the sole name of Jesus Christ,\\nfor the eternal welfare, as for the present comfort, of\\nour race. The foundations of New Jersey were laid\\nin the fear of God. Be it known unto you all, in\\nthe name and fear of Almighty God, His glory and\\nhonour, power and wisdom, truth and kingdom is\\ndearer to us than all visible things, is the devout\\nand manly language of one of its most ancient public\\ndocuments. 1 As the foundation was laid, so should\\nthe superstructure be built up, and crowned, in faith,\\nand fear, and prayer. In all the life of Dr. Frank-\\nlin, there is no page so beautiful as that which bears\\nthe record of his motion, that the daily sessions of the\\nConvention for forming the Constitution of the Uni-\\nted States begin with prayer. Mr. President, he\\nsaid, the small progress we have made, after four or\\nWhat Smiih calls, a cautionary Epistle, from William Penn, Gawin Lau-\\nrie, and Nicholas Lucas, in 1676.\\n4", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\nfive weeks close attendance, and continual reasoning\\nwith each other; our different sentiments on almost\\nevery question, several of the last producing as ma-\\nny noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of\\nthe imperfection of the human understanding. We\\nindeed seem to feel our own want of political wis-\\ndom, since we have been running all about in search\\nof it. We have gone back to ancient history for mo-\\ndels of government, and examined the different forms\\nof those republics, which, having been originally\\nformed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now\\nno longer exist and we have viewed modern states\\nall around Europe but find none of their constitu-\\ntions suitable to our circumstances. In this situa-\\ntion of this assembly, groping as it were, in the dark,\\nto find political truth, and unable to distinguish it\\nwhen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that\\nwe have not hitherto once thought of humbly apply-\\ning to the Father of lights, to illuminate our under-\\nstandings? In the beginning of the contest with\\nBritain, when we were sensible of danger, we had\\ndaily prayers in this room for the divine protection.\\nOur prayers, Sir, were heard; and they were gra-\\nciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in\\nthe struggle, must have observed frequent instances\\nof a superintending Providence in our favour. To\\nthat same Providence, we owe the happy opportunity\\nof consulting in peace on the means of establishing\\nour future national felicity. And have we now for-\\ngotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine we\\nno longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a\\nlong time and the longer I live, the more convincing", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nproofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the af-\\nfairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the\\nground without His notice, is it probable that an em-\\npire can rise without His aid We have been assur-\\ned, Sir, in the sacred writings, that except the Lord\\nbuild the house, their labour is but lost that build it.\\nI firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without\\nHis concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political\\nbuilding no better than the builders of Babel we\\nshall be divided by our little, partial, local interests.\\nOur projects will be confounded and we ourselves\\nshall become a reproach and a bye-word to future\\nages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter,\\nfrom this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing\\ngovernment by human wisdom, and leave it to\\nchance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to\\nmove, that, henceforth, daily prayers, imploring the as-\\nsistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our delibera-\\ntions, be held in this Assembly, every morning, before\\nwe proceed to business and that one or more of the\\nclergy of this city be requested to officiate in that ser-\\nvice. 1 There spoke the truest wisdom, ^the most\\nSparks edition of Franklin s Works, V. 153-155. I cannot deny myself\\nthe pleasure of recording here a most interesting and gratifying co-incidence. I\\ndo it in the language of a correspondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser, per-\\nsonally unknown to me, omitting his words of kindness to myself. The daily\\nSessions of, the Legislature, as you will see by the report of the proceedings of\\nthe House, are, for the first time in our history, to be opened with prayer. It\\nis a notable co-incidence that the vote was taken only a few minutes before the\\ndelivery of Bishop Doane s Address before the Historical Society ia which he\\ncalled the attention of the audience, which included the members of both houses,\\nto Dr. Franklin s emphatic and remarkable speech, when he made a motion,\\nsimilar to that of Mr. McLean, in the old Convention, which framed the Federal\\nConstitution. It can scarcely be necessary to add that it was a co-incidence.", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nenlarged philanthrophy, the loftiest patriotism, the\\nprofoundest piety. Righteousness exalteth a na-\\ntion: but sin is the reproach of any people. 1 O,\\npray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper\\nthat love thee. 2 Happy are the people that are in\\nsuch a case yea, blessed are the people who have the\\nLord for their God. 3\\nOne single sad word more, my heart cannot fore-\\ngo. Brief as has been the term of our existence, as a\\nSociety, it has been long enough for death to wound\\nus in our tenderest place. The joy of our first anni-\\nversary mingles itself with grief. Since our last\\nquarterly assembling, we have lost oh, how im-\\nmense his gain the excellent, the learned, the ac-\\ncomplished, the patriotic Dod. Oh, had he stood\\nwhere I stand, 4 how his manly bosom would have\\nThe Legislature could not have known the Bishop s intention nor had the\\nBishop any knowledge whatever of the purpose of the mover.\\ni Proverbs xiv. 34. 2 Psalm cxxii. 6.\\ns Psalm cxlv. 15. How admirably this Psalm describes our case! Our gar-\\nners arc full and plenteous, with all manner of store; our sheep do bring\\nforth thousands and ten thousands in our streets our oxen are strong to la-\\nbour; and there is no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in\\nour streets. Shall we not be as careful to realize the truth, the comfort and the\\nbeauty of the verse next preceding: that our sons may grow up as the young\\nplants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple V\\n4 The following letter to the Editor of the Burlington Gazette, will explain\\nthe allusions here\\nIt was a grief of heart, such as I seldom had to bear, that I was not at\\nthe funeral of this beloved and lamented man. An engagement of positive du-\\nty, made before I knew of his illness, which I could neither delegate nor defer,\\nrequired me to go from home, in another direction. But I was there in spirit\\nand few were there, out of the charmed circle of his own immediate friends, to\\nweap for him more bitter tears. I truly think, that New Jersey had not any", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nswelled Oh, had he stood where I stand, how his\\nbeaming eye would have flashed new fires Oh,\\nhad he stood where I stand, how his clear trumpet\\nvoice would have been lifted up He was a man\\nson of brighter promise, for her interests and fame. And I am filled with aw-\\nful adoration when I reflect, how rich and full His store of providence must be,\\nWho, seeing to the end, from the beginning, has withdrawn him from us, when\\nhis days seemed not half spent, and when his usefulness and influence were\\nspreading so, and deepening, every day.\\nI knew him well, and loved him better than I knew him. We often met at\\nthe house of a dear and venerable friend, and never without a marked increase\\nof mutual love. He was a man of a most Catholic mind, and of a more Cath-\\nolic heart. It took in all its kind and yet lost nothing from its individuality\\nof tenderness. This was most strikingly illustrated in what drew him in, into\\nthe inmost circle of my bosom, his unexampled devotion to young Stockton\\nBoudinot. He took him to his house. He took him to his heart. He forgot\\nhis own infirmities of body. He endured, beyond the endurance of the strongest\\nman. He practised the inventive tendernes of the most gentle woman. I saw\\nhis daily letters, from the bed-side of the sufferer, to the excellent lady I have\\nalluded to above. They were perfect in their kind. So discreet, so tender, so\\ntouching. With each successive reading, my estimate of his unrivalled friend-\\nship was increased. And, at the close of the strange case, unparalleled in all\\nthe records of the profession, I felt, and said, that, if such calamity should fall\\non me or mine, I could ask nothing from the Lord, with the confidence of His\\npaternal mercy, but such a friend as Dr. Dod. I wrote to him what I had felt.\\nAnd, on the very day before the sickness seized him, which in one week closed\\nhis life, he wrote to me the following letter. Believing it to be one of the very\\nlast he ever wrote, I do not permit its strong expressions of personal kindness\\nto prevent my sending it to you entire. I was very deeply affected by tho\\nheartiness of your kind letter. Had I wished for notice and applause, such\\ncommendation, from such a source, would have satisfied my highest ambition.\\nBut your quick and broad humanity will enable you to comprehend me fully,\\nwhen I reply, in the words of our favourite poet-philosopher\\nI ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds\\nWith coldness still returning\\n1 Alas the gratitude of men\\nHath oftener left me mourning.\\nI perceive, by the published report of the proceedings of the New Jersey\\nHistorical Society, that I have been appointed to deliver the Address at their", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\nand all the instincts of a man kindled and glowed in\\nhim. No interest of humanity but found in him an\\nadvocate most eloquent. No effort for humanity but\\nwon from him his voice and hand and heart. While\\nhis devotion to his native State glowed ever with a\\nfire the more intense, for the unbounded comprehen-\\nsion of his love. How nobly he led on in the great\\nnext meeting, and that you are my alternate. I could have wished that this\\norder had been reversed. In a conversation which I had, the day before the\\nmeeting, with the Chairman of the Executive Committee, I requested him to\\nsee to it, that you were requested to deliver the next Address. But as I had\\nfailed on this occasion, and for what seemed a good and sufficient reason, I\\nsuppose they felt unwilling to thrust me unceremoniously aside. It is every\\nway desirable, for intrinsic and external reasons, that the Address before the\\nfirst Annual Meeting of the Society, should be delivered by you. And it is ev-\\nident that, but for the accident of my being in the way, you would have been\\nselected for the performance of the duty. I have to request, therefore, that you\\nwill be good enough to consider yourself charged with it. In making this re-\\nquest, I am not governed solely by a feeling of propriety; though that would be\\nenough. But under existing circumstances, it would be impossible for me to\\ndo justice to the Society or to myself, in the discharge of this duty. I am\\nstruggling with some form of nervous disease, which disquiets and dispirits me;\\nand, for the cure or alleviation of which, my physician enjoins me to be in the\\nopen air as much as possible and intermit, as far as I can, studious application.\\nI find, too, that the case of poor Boudinot has taken such a hold on me, that\\nI cannot shake it off. There is scarcely a night in which I do not dream of\\nhim, with dreams of so vivid and half wakeful a character, that their impres-\\nsion remains with me through the day. So long as he was alive, and there\\nwas any thing to be done for him, he was the object of action. Now, I find\\nthat his long illness has become the subject of thought.\\nI wrote to him at once a letter which I suppose he never read to say,\\nthat though I had counted on his discharging the duty before the Historical So-\\nciety, leaving me no other responsibility than might providentially occur, I\\nwould certainly comply with his request; assuring him of my prayers that God\\nwould soon restore him to health and duty and inviting him to visit us at\\nBurlington. The next tidings were that he was very ill. The next, that he\\nwas dead What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue But he\\ndied in the midst of usefulness. He died in the enjoyment of universal confi-", "height": "3130", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\ncause of education here, who does not know How\\nzealously he entered into this new enterprise, who\\ndid not feel? In him, if he were living, I would\\nfind the bright example I have sought to draw for\\nhe was, every inch, a Jersey man. And now, to his\\nnew grave, I sadly turn, and say, there lies the no-\\ndence and respect. He died in the satisfaction of unwearied and unbounded\\nlove. He was one in whom the spirit o er-informed the flesh. He had a\\ngreat heart, and its throbbings had worn out its frame. The overworking of\\nthe mind had loosed his hold on life. He sank under the shock of the acute\\ndisease which had assailed him and had not physical ability to rally. Though\\nnot for himself too soon, it is too soon for us. His greatness grew with every\\nday. The masculine vigour of his mind grappled all subjects, and could master\\nall. His generous enthusiasm kindled the young hearts, that it drew to him,\\nwith its own fires. And now, in this last service of his life it was his very last\\nhe had developed, with all that is bravest in a man, whatever in a woman is\\nmost lovely and engaging. Felix opportunitate mortis.\\nOf his intellectual character and attainments, of the daily beauty of his so-\\ncial and domestic life, of his Christian walk and conversation, others have spo-\\nken, and will speak, with fuller opportunities than I could have. Few with a\\nfuller love. Nulli flebilior quam mihi. I never met with him, in private or\\nin public, in steamboat or in stage, that we did not warm and grow together.\\nHe was a-glow with all the generous instincts of humanity. They were refin-\\ned, in him, andjsanctified, by the live coal, which seraphs have in hand. He\\ncombined, most rarely, a keen, broad, sound and manly practicalness with the\\nloftiest and most generous enthusiasm. I have often thought, that had he not\\nbeen a great mathematician, he would have been a greater poet. He illustrated\\nthis in his zealous devotion to that, which, of all pursuits of men, combines the\\nmost of the practical with the best of the poetical, Gothic architecture. It was\\nhis favorite study, and most fervent theme. He was in low with it. You\\nwill say, he said to me, in his own hearty playfulness, that I have stolen your\\nthunder\\nI saw him last in Princeton. His last acts to me were acts of hospitality.\\nHis last words were the words of friendship. And, what I value most of all, I\\nwas among the thoughts of his last hours. On Tuesday night, says Pro-\\nfessor Hodge, his distinguished fellow labourer, and faithful friend, when we\\nall thought him very near his end, he charged me with several messages to his\\nabsent friends and said, I have been thinking of Bishop Doane, and should\\nlike to see him, and wish him to know it. I feel that I am discharging a duty", "height": "3223", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "goodlyheritageof00doan_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32\\nblest Roman of them all. He went, for us, and for\\nNew Jersey, all too soon. We must take up the\\nwork he did not finish. If we take it up in his spirit,\\nif we pursue it with his energy, we shall redeem the\\npast, we shall adorn and bless the future and chil-\\ndren s children, and their children s children, after\\nthem, will rise and say, we too are Jerseymen\\nto our departed friend, in conveying to you the simple intimation, that he\\nthought of you with kindness, in the last hours of his life. None, from beyond\\nthe immediate circle in which my life is passed, have won for me a livelier in*\\nterest and affection. No message from a death-bed has come nearer to my\\nheart, or dwells more warmly there.\\nInto the secret places of their sorrow, to whom this stroke comes nearest\\nhome, it were profane to enter. Thanks be to God for the revelation, which the\\nages that had wandered from Him farthest cherished as a pleasing dream, that\\nthe bolt makes sacred what it strikes The most endearing names to Him are\\nthose of widow and of orphan. He is a father of the fatherless, and defendeth\\nthe cause of the widows even God, in His holy habitation.\\nG. W. 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