John Creswell: “He never would hold any of his slaves under his authority, never would accept a cent of their wages, and tendered each…”

For the Christian, scholar, statesman, and orator, all good men are mourners; but what shall I say of that grief which none can share--the grief of sincere friendship?

She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good work, herself the example of all she taught.

If from his father he drew a courage and a fierce determination before which his enemies fled in confusion, from his mother he inherited those milder qualities that won for him friends as true and devoted as man ever possessed.

His friends saw deeper, and knew that beneath the exterior he assumed in his struggles with the world there beat a heart as pure and unsullied, as confiding and as gentle, as ever sanctified the domestic circle, or made loved ones happy.