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England population have been prolific in distinguished men, but Lebanon stands among the very foremost in this regard. Indeed, we know of no other town, of like population, that can quite equal her in the number and dignity of the men whom she has given to the public service of the State and country. The neighboring town of Norwich and some of the towns in Litchfield County have been remarkable in this same line. But Lebanon gave the governor to Connecticut-Jonathan Trumbull-through all the long and trying years of the War of the Revolution. She gave the governor to Connecticut-William A. Buckingham-through the eventful years of the War of the Rebellion. Both of them were models for wisdom and efficiency. She gave to New England, and to Boston especially, the man who is generally reputed our greatest jurist-Jeremiah Mason. She gave to the country William Williams, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. She gave a second Jonathan Trumbull to be governor of Connecticut for eleven consecutive years. He was, besides, a member of Congress, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator of the United States. She gave to the world of art the painter John Trumbull. She gave Clark Bissell, LL.D., to be another governor of the State, Judge of the Supreme Court, and Kent Professor in the Yale Law School. Col. Joseph Trumbull, of Lebanon, was Commissary-General in the Revolutionary Army, and Joseph Trumbull, LL.D., was a prominent lawyer and State legislator, also Governor of Connecticut, who died at Hartford in 1861. Henry H. Gurley, a member of Congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1831 was a native of Lebanon. Charles Marsh, LL.D., the leading lawyer in Vermont in the early years of this century, and a member of Congress from that State, was one of the Lebanon boys, educated at Dartmouth. Hon. Nelson Dewey, first State Governor of Wisconsin, was also a native of Lebanon. Other honorable names could be given, but these will suffice.

She has furnished eminent divines and theologians in rich profusion, including such names as John Smalley, D.D., of Berlin, Conn.; Ezra Stiles Ely, D.D., of Philadelphia, Pa.; Joseph Lyman, D.D., of Hatfield, Mass.; Eliphalet Williams, D.D., of East Hartford, Conn.; Walter Harris, D.D., of Dun

barton, N. H.; Elijah Parish, D.D., of Byfield, Mass.; Ralph R. Gurley, D.D., of Washington, D. C.; Rev. William Robinson, for forty-one years the pastor at Southington, Conn.; Rev. John Robinson, pastor at Westborough, Mass.; Rev. David Huntington, pastor at Marlborough, Middletown, and Lyme, Conn.; Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., of Hinsdale, Ill.; William Lyman, D.D., of East Haddam, Conn.; Rev. Orin Fowler, pastor at Fall River, Mass., where he was elected member of Congress; Samuel G. Buckingham, D.D., of Springfield, Mass.; Selden Haines, D.D., of Rome, N. Y.; Rev. Dan Huntington, pastor at Litchfield and Middletown, Conn., who passed his old age at Hadley, Mass., where he died at the age of ninety (father of Frederic Dan Huntington, D.D., Bishop of Central New York); Rev. Bezaleel Pinneo, a more than fifty years' minister at Milford, Conn.; Rev. Diodate Brockway, a fifty years' minister at Ellington, Conn.; Rev. Shubael Bartlett, a fifty years' minister at East Windsor, Conn.; Rev. John Wheelock, LL.D., second President of Dartmouth College; Rev. John Bartlett, a fifty years' minister in different parishes of Connecticut; Rev. Timothy Stone, a fifty years' minister in different Connecticut parishes; Rev. Daniel Hunt, of Pomfret, Conn.; Rev. Joel West, of East Hampton, Conn.; Rev. Alfred Wright, Missionary to the Choctaws; Rev. Salmon McCall, of East Haddam, Conn. These are not all, but enough to justify our claim.

Jonathan Trumbull, the revolutionary governor of Connecticut, was himself educated for the ministry. If one will turn to page 339 of "Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut" he will find that Jonathan Trumbull and William Metcalfe were examined together before the Windham Association of Ministers and a license to preach was given them October 13, 1730. Jonathan Trumbull and William Metcalfe were both natives of Lebanon, and there must have been a peculiar intimacy and friendship between them. If one will turn to the Harvard College Triennial for the year 1727 he will find these two names standing side by side in the class for that year. They would not be side by side alphabetically, but the names of men both at Harvard and Yale were in those years placed upon the catalogues according to their supposed family dignity and rank, and these two young

men must have been regarded as essentially alike in this respect; the two names are together on the catalogue, Metcalfe's name following that of Trumbull's. Nor did the companionship stop here. When Trumbull turned aside from the ministry to attend to his father's affairs William Metcalfe, for some reason, turned aside also. He married, October 25, 1737, Abigail Edwards, the sixth daughter of Rev. Timothy Edwards, of East Windsor, and sister of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Northampton. Mr. Metcalfe, like Mr. Trumbull, was soon called to take part in civil affairs. For a long course of years he was one of the honored magistrates of Windham county and died in 1773.

There is one more interesting coincidence in this connection. The class of 1727 at Harvard, of which Trumbull and Metcalfe were members, numbered also among its students Thomas Hutchinson, who was the royal governor of Massachusetts in the years just before the revolutionary struggle. Thomas Hutchinson, in 1774, was obliged to fly from the stormy wrath of the people of Massachusetts and take refuge in England, while his classmate at Lebanon, governor of Connecticut, was the honored friend of Washington, and was most wisely and industriously employed in working out the problem of American liberty.

There were strange guests at the house of Governor Trumbull during those revolutionary years-messengers from the army, express riders waiting for dispatches, British officers who were prisoners of war sent there for safe keeping, French officers, our allies and helpers. Whoever might be at the governor's table the blessing was duly invoked upon the food and thanks returned when the meal was done. He was a man, however, who could thus regulate his household religiously, could say a serious word by tongue or pen without having it seem like cant. His truth and sincerity were unmistakable. Other most distinguished men in Connecticut studied for the ministry before entering upon public civil life. Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of the United States, and Jeremiah Mason, the eminent jurist already spoken of, were theological students in the family of John Smalley, D.D., of New Britain, Ct., after they had finished their college studies at

Yale and before setting out upon those pathways of eminence which both of them afterwards trod.

In this connection it may be well also to recall the fact that Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, who had been for sixteen years the pastor of the first church in New London, was chosen colonialgovernor of Connecticut in 1707, and was afterwards re-elected year by year until his death, in 1724, having served his generation as minister and as governor about an equal number of years.

ARTICLE II.-THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE.

REV. DR. J. L. TUCKER'S speech before the Episcopal church congress, in Richmond, Va., last October, on the subject set at the head of this Article, together with letters of endorsement from bishops, rectors, judges, physicians, and others-seventy-two in all-and two or three pages of adverse criticism from the colored citizens of Jackson, Miss., the home of Dr. Tucker at the time he made the speech, makes a pamphlet of ninety-one pages. It is said that Dr. Tucker is a young man and of Northern birth; that he was a soldier in the Confederate army; then a planter in Mississippi; then a deacon and a priest in Columbus, and afterwards in Rochester, N. Y.; then a rector in Jackson, Miss.; and that, in all these years of his being a planter and preacher, he had large numbers of the colored people under his instruction. But notwithstanding all this opportunity to know this people and their needs, and his professions of deep interest in their material and spiritual wellbeing, there are some important questions presented, some grave things asserted, assumed, or implied, in that speech, on which I think the able author is quite mistaken.

1. The first sad mistake of his, which I will mention, has respect to the character of the native African. He seems to have thought it necessary to paint that character as black as possible, "in order to properly estimate the progress the race has made in this country." So he says, in Africa, "Human life has no sacredness, and men, women, and children are slain as beasts are, and even more carelessly as less valuable. Human suffering excites no pity, and blood flows like water."... "that what we call morality, whether in the relations of the sexes, or in the sense of truthfulness or in the sense of honesty, has no lodgment whatever in the native African breast;" and that they have "no words to express the ideas of gratitude, of generosity, of industry, of truthfulness, honesty, modesty, gentleness and virtue." Now, all this, and much more of the same

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