questioned talents. Four his high administrative capacity contrasting strongly in this with Mr. Van Buren-Fivehis energy not only in administering but in reforming the Government particularly in its expenditures-the injustice to the distinguished men of the party, in holding up any individual's pretensions for twelve years-the one term principle (if necessary) for Mr. Calhoun, a timely appeal to the interests of Buchanan, Wright & Woodbury for the Vice Presidency & &c; &c."

"Nor need these things all proceed from any one quarter or any one press."

From-Dixon H. Lewis.

To-R. K. Crallé.

Written on the Prospectus of "The Plebeian." The prospectus is dated New York, June 15, 1842, and the first number is announced for June 27. Levi D. Slamm and Clement Guion sign it.

of

"This is to be a Calhoun Paper & is the leading organ the Democracy of the City. We are to give it all the aid, we can, to keep it from out of the Hands of the Enemy."Denny Coll.

From-Dixon H. Lewis.

To-R. K. Crallé, Lynchburg, Va.

Dated-Washington, December 28, 1842.

"We are in the midst of the mellee * * * The Van Buren men are straining every nerve to put down Mr. Calhoun whom they begin now both to fear & hate. Their object is to hurry the Party prematurely into a convention * * We propose a Convention in June 1844, the usual

time."

From-Duff Green.

To-R. K. Crallé.

Dated-Washington, February 8, 1843.

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"Van Burens partisans go for an early organization and a convention in August next. The friends of the other candidates for deferring the convention until May or June 1844 and require that it shall then be fairly constituted. They take the ground that it were better to refer the election to Congress than to a packed junta of political demagogues & my own opinion is that if the convention can be delayed until June, the question will be disposed of by the people" in favor of Calhoun.

"There are many reasons why this should be so-When that convention becomes a mere caucus of political party managers it ceases to become an agent of the people, but it is in fact an agent of the managers, whereby they impose upon the people. Instead of a means of ascertaining public sentiment & securing harmony it becomes an instrument to defeat the public will by substituting therefor the creature of faction."

"I have purposely avoided speaking of President Tyler. You know my personal friendship for him, and how much it would have gratified me if he had taken a course which would have secured his reëlection. I fear, however, that he has not done what I am persuaded he might have done, and that it is now too late."

From-Dixon H. Lewis.

To-R. K. Crallé, Lynchburg, Va.

Dated-Washington, February 10 [1843] (Postmark). "The time of the Convention settles every thing.-May 1844 must not be abandoned, so say to every friend."-Denny Coll.

(To be continued.)

DUANE LETTERS.

(Continued.)

ELEAZER WHEELOCK TO GENERAL SCHUYLER.1

[It is thought that this letter as throwing light on educational conditions in colonial days will be of general interest, far from the immediate locality of Dartmouth. Hence it seems to find a fitting place in these PUBLICATIONS. -Eds.]

[Editorial Summary—ASKING ADVICE AS TO REMOVAL OF SCHOOL; DETAILS AS TO TEACHERS, ATTENDANCE, INDIAN STUDENTS, PROPERTY, FARM, ANIMALS, CROPS; NEED OF AID, DEBT OF £1000; HELP FROM CONGRESS, J. PHILLIPS, OTHERS;

GOOD POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS REASONS FOR GOVERNMENTS TO ASSIST IN EDUCATING INDIANS; WANTS SUCH FAVOR AT END OF WAR.2]

Much Respected Sir;

Dartmo. College 18th. Feby. 1777.

I shall not think strange if at first you wonder that after such signal smiles and favor of Heaven upon this College

1 Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Conn., April 22, 1711; was graduated at Yale in 1733. He then studied divinity and became pastor of a church in Lebanon, Conn., where he served for 35 years. His salary proving insufficient for his support he began to take pupils into his house, and after he had thus received Samson Occom, a Mohican Indian, he conceived the idea of an Indian missionary school, and by 1762 he had some twenty youths under his charge, chiefly Indians. Afterwards a fund of £10,000 was raised in England and placed in the hands of a board of trustees of which Lord Dartmouth was president. This fund was used in the establishment of a new school at Hanover, N. H., called Dartmouth College.

In 1770 Wheelock removed to Hanover, which was then a wilderness, and built log cabins for the reception of his students. This was the inception of Dartmouth College, and the letter shows that trials and tribulations were the lot of the first president, who died in 1779.

2 As usual, all bracketed [ ] insertions in text, and all foot notes are by the editor.

and School from its infancy, and especially since its settlement in this country, I should now so soon and at such a time of my life think of removing it into your vicinity, and give you such evidence of my real intention so to do (if God should smile upon the undertaking) as to be at the trouble and expense of sending the bearers on purpose to communicate the design to yourself and other Gentlemen of character and influence in your State for advice, and if you approve thereof, for your direction and encouragement therein.

But when you shall fully be availed of the many weighty considerations which have given such a turn to my thoughts, I am persuaded you will think the matter worthy your serious attention.

I have indeed seen much of the goodness of God in making every step I have taken in the affair hitherto to prosper, since I came to this wholly uncultivated Wilderness where my number of Indian Children at School has generally been from fourteen to twenty one and of all on Charity about thirty. My whole number of dependent and independent Students in College and School has generally been for several years about an hundred, and their behavior has been from the first to my good satisfaction, with very few exceptions. The generous and catholic charter by which the Royal Favor so liberally endowed it, my son can show you on your desire. The School is Possess'd of about 40,000 acres of land the most of it good. I have built four good mills beside a number of houses, barns, etc. to accomodate the School. I reap't 114 acres of English grain last season, and cut an 100 Tons of good hay, and might with ease have cut as much more had not the resources for the expense thereot been cut off by our public national controversy. The School owns about 30 cows and eight oxen, and horses sufficient for the family, and has 4 or 500 acres of land well seeded with grass, and could have fatted an hundred oxen last year if I

had been able to purchase them, and I think there is a fair prospect of a fund here as permanent as the soil for the support of scores of Indian children and others on Charity to the end of time. I have now two Indian youth in College, one in his last, the other in his second year and eight more (five of which are Canadians) fitting for College and all promising. Their being here together with that friendship which has been cultivated by the Missionaries I have from time to time sent to visit them, I have esteemed the surest bulwark and so sure a one against any invasion from the Wilderness to lay us waste, that I have never yet been disquieted at all with any apprehensions of danger from that Quarter. But ever since the first blockading of Boston, all succours from beyond the seas have been suspended, where was about 3000 ster. collected for my use. And I have been left to scramble along hitherto with all the weight of near 30 on Charity, and considerably in debt for labor and necessary stores for the support of those with myself and private family, four Tutors and a School-master, beside the great occasionable expense which my situation and public Character necessarily exposes me to, and thus I have proceeded till my debt was near £1000 Ster. mostly on interest, and in such a state of anarchy here in addition to the general poverty of new setlers that I have been in no capacity to collect what is due to me or the School, and could see no present prospect of paying the School's debts any other way than by the sale of the small private interest which I left in Connecticut, and accordingly have sent a man for that purpose which may relieve me as to the debts which crowded upon me, but will do but little towards cloathing my naked boys and necessitous family which cannot be any other way done than by money, as we are yet in no capacity to manufacture cloathing among ourselves, nor will the produce of these lands help in that matter as they have not yet more than payed the labor laid out in fencing and perfecting the cultivation of them.