, will again become auxiliary to the arms of freemen honestly- contending for the liberty and independence of their country. We assure you, Sir, for our- selves, personally, that in such a conflict no consideration of ease to our estates or safety to our persons, shall deter us from the exertion of every

resided in an elegant mansion (for that day, at least) which stood on the site of Kirk Johnson's music store, 16 West King street. The secretary of state was Nathaniel B. Boileau, whose correct title was "secretary of the commonwealth." In further writing of the persons whom he met in Lancaster, Wilson

to say, little interest is manifested by the masses, and their origin and antiqui- ties are with indifference overlooked or wholly ignored. The modern scholar does not consider his education com- plete unless he has paid homage at the ruined piles of monumental art of the Orient, to which history has