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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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How near akin he was to you, I don't know-perhaps, your grandfather-anyhow, he was a relation, and I do assure you, Mammy, I was glad to read his epitaph, and know that he was your kinsman and mine. I felt proud to be the descendent of so good and so great a man. You need never be ashamed of your ancestors. Dr. Brainer announced that there was to be a change in the Christian Observer; matters of a sectional character, as for instance-discussions upon the slavery question to be excluded, and George Duffield-"a ready writer, and a man of great industry"-is to be an associate editor. So you perceive our kinsman in rising, and too, that circumstances show the reputation he has. I have not been there since I first wrote; but will learn all that I can about the family. In reading hereafter the Observer, you may know that one of its Editors is a cousin. Note: The above is from the son of Alfred Wilson Taylor, who was at the time of the writing of the letter, a student of Medicine in the college near Chestnut Street, in Philadelphia, as he states in his letter. He died soon after his return home in March of the same year. He was very bright. He died unmarried.-F.D. Love -------------------o---------------------------o----------------------o----------------o---------------- Speech of Robert Love, ("Carter Bob") age 18, made in a debating society in the year 1838. Said Society held its meetings in a log school house on the Watauga River in Carter County, and was known as Taylor's School-House-F.D. Love Gentleman of the Chair: The questions before you for discussion have been analyzed by the gentlemen who have preceded me, and I must here say, to the credit of the same, with considerable skill and ingenuity. But gentlemen, it has very fortunately for me, in one respect, fallen to my part or lot, to maintain the principle included in the affirmative of this question; fortunately, because all I shall say in support thereof will be the sentimental effusions of both my heart and soul. However, before I proceed to give you my candid thoughts in my usual desultory way and promiscuous manner, I must first be permitted a few preliminary remarks of a personal character in reference to my present situation and feelings. Although this question has been discussed at length by many of the papers of the State and Union, and their views having in accordance thereto been indecently manifested in the establishment of a penitentiary; and sirs, I need stop here in my enumeration of the many manifestations, by periodicals and papers of all classes and characters, that have come forth boldly in support of this great and might philanthropic work, humanity's cause, the keystone and ultimate end of all Republican institutions. But sires, the greatest and most profound Jurists of the present age, as well as the founders of our system of jurisprudence included in the affirmative of the question. But gentlemen, although it has fallen to my most pleasurable lot to have read the sentiments of a considerable number of the distinguished characters that have thus escaped their connection upon this subject, either directly or indirectly, yet the momentous importance and weightiness of the principle has created within my own mind a degree of diffidence not experienced by me on any previous occasion. However, there is yet another reason of Back | Next | Title | Purchase Book |
Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series. , Edited by Dennis N. Partridge, Columbus, Georgia, © 2001.
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