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Malcolrandfather, left Scotland subsequently to our Revolution, accompanied by his wife and son Jae of several weeks landed in New York His as Miss Lucy McClellan His father, Alexander Caht in the battle of Culloden, and I have heard iht for Charlie?
Who wadna draw the sword?
Who wadna up and rally, At their royal prince's word?
Think on Scotia's ancient heroes, Think on foreign foes repell'd, Think on glorious Bruce and Wallace, Who the proud usurpers quell'd”
It is said he had previously been sent to Italy to collect arrandson of Jaht on the 16th of April, 1746, and which has often been called the ”Culloden Massacre,” caused the whole civilized world to stand aghast The order of the Duke of curant no quarter to prisoners placed hiraced the pages of history, and earned for him the unenviable title of ”The Butcher of Culloden” It has been suggested in extenuation of his fiendish conduct that His Grace was ”deep in his cups” the night before the battle, and that the General to who the condition of the Duke, insisted that his instructions should be reduced to writing His Grace thereupon angrily seized a playing card fro, and complied with the request This card happened to be the nine of diamonds, and to this day is known as ”the curse of Scotland” A long period elapsed before those who had sy Pretender's cause were restored to the good graces of the English throne, and it was Scotland that was compelled to bear the brunt of the royal displeasure The sins of the fathers were visited upon their children, and it is not at all unlikely that the syrandfather), for the last of the House of Stuart developed a chain of circumstances that resulted, with other causes, in his e the early period of s which , and which had been handed down in the Ca my early life with the Jacobite spirit of lish history of George I, carrying with hi the water to England to beco of Great Britain, I felt even at that late day that the act was a personal grievance Through the passage of s still rings in my ears:
”There's nae luck aboot the hoose, There's nae luck ava [at all]; There's little pleasure in the hoose When our gude s appeal to me possibly in the same manner as the ”Marseillaise” to the French, or the ”Ranz de Vaches” to the Sho have wandered from their mountain homes, or as the strains of our national hyn lands, whose hearts are made to throb ith uncovered heads they listen, and are carried back in randfather, Malcolree of Master of Arts froreat school of Scottish Latinity, and his diplo upon him that honor is still in the possession of his descendants Before leaving Scotland he had fore to Aentleether with his wife and their two children Mrs Picken was the only daughter of Sir Charles Burdette of London, whose as the daughter of the Earl of Wyndham
She and Andrew Picken, as a native of Stewarton, in Ayrshi+re, a younger branch of a noble fae and, after vainly atte to effect a reconciliation with her father, resolved upon ehter, Mrs Sara Jane Picken Cohen,of the Rev Dr
Abrahainia, wrote the e to this country says: ”It was one of those old-ties, of nine weeks and three days, from land to land, and a very boisterous one it was There had been a terrific stored violently for several days” This friendshi+p forthened during the long voyage, and when the two families finally reached New York, Mrs Cohen writes: ”Here we settled down our two fae land But the lahtly and lit us on the way; our children grew up together in early childhood, and as brothers and sisters were born in each family they were named in succession after each other” It is pleasant to state that this friendshi+p foro is still continued in hters and I frequently enjoy in our Washi+ngton ho society of Mr and Mrs Roberdeau Buchanan, the latter of whohter of Mr and Mrs Andrew Picken
Soon after his arrival in New York Malcolm Campbell established a classical school at 85 Broadway nearly opposite Trinity Church He edited the first American edition of Cicero's orations and of Caesar's commentaries, and also revised and corrected and published in 1808 l'Abbe Tardy's French dictionary His first edition of Cicero is dedicated to the ”Right Reverend Benjamin Moore, DD, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, and President of Colue,” and another edition with the saes of Latin, to the learned Saraveyard of the Wall Street Presbyterian Church It may not be inappropriate in this connection to refer to another instructor of an even earlier period which has co and arith accuracy” In _The New York Journal Or The General Advertiser_ of the 30th of April, 1772, appears the following advertisement:
THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC is hereby inforreeable to a for was opened at New Brunswick, last Novee_,[1] and also a Grammar School, in order to prepare Youth for the same Any Parents or Guardians who may be inclined to send their Children to this Institution, reatest Care and Diligence in all the Arts and Sciences usually taught in public Schools; the strictest Regard will be paid to theirwhich may tend to render them a Pleasure to their Friends, and an Ornament to their Species
Also to obviate the Objection of so their Children on Account of their slish, a proper Person has been provided, who attends at the Gra and Arith Accuracy--It is hoped that the above Considerations, together with the healthy and convenient Situation of the Place, on a Pleasant and navigable River, in the midst of a plentiful Country; the Reasonableness of the Inhabitants in the Price of Board, and the easy Access from all Places, either by Land or Water will be esteemed by the considerate Public, as a sufficient Recoe, which (as it is erected upon so Catholic a Plan) will undoubtedly prove _advantageous_ to our new A its SISTER SEMMINARIES to cultivate Piety, Learning, and Liberty
_Per Order of the Trustees_,
FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN, Tutor
NB The Vacation of the College will be expired on Wednesday the 6th of May, any Students then offering themselves shall be admitted into such Class, as (upon Exa
The signer of this interesting advertisee in 1770, and subsequently becauished son, Theodore, idely known as a philanthropist and Christian statesman, and at various periods was United States Senator, Chancellor of the New York University, President of Rutgers College, a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States, and President of the Aner was the Hon
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, the well remembered United States Senator and Secretary of State under President Arthur
Speaking of the Frelinghuysen fa story told at the expense of Newark, New Jersey When the late Secretary Frelinghuysen presented hinized by St Peter, who asked hihuysen,” was the response ”From where?” ”Newark, New Jersey” ”Newark?” quoth St Peter, ”I never heard of that place, but I will look on my list No, it isn't there I can not adentleate in the boundless immensity The devil opened it and looked out The same conversation occurred as with St Peter Neasn't ”on the list” ”My Heavens, Mr Satan, am I then doomed to return to Newark?”
exclairaveyard
My father, James Campbell, was born in Callander, Scotland, and, as I have before stated, ca child Both he and his father were clad in their Highland dress upon their arrival in New York His childhood was spent in the great metropolis, and he subsequently studied law in Albany, with the Hon
Sarandfather of Mrs Arent Schuyler Crowninshi+eld He was admitted to the bar, and almost immediately becaate of New York, a position which he retained for twenty years He was always a pronounced de this fact he was reappointed ten successive ti party was in the ascendency in the New York Legislature, and through the instrumentality of Willia,” the whole political atanized sche votes, and derived its name from certain political manipulations connected with the introduction of Croton water in New York City I have learned in later years thatvotes Modern ethics has discovered a h means of powerful corporations with coffers wide open in the holy cause of electing candidates
This unfortunate state of affairs resulted in the removal of my father from office, and he immediately resuate are regarded as precedents to this day Two of the most prominent of these are ”Watts and LeRoy vs Public Ad in the establishment of the Leake and Watts Orphan House) and ”In the matter of the last Will and Testament of Alice Lispenard, deceased” He is said to have owned about this tiely of foreign iard for American editions The classical portion of his library, especially the voluarded as unusually choice and well selected
He had also a large collection of Greek Testaments which he read in preference to the translations He owned a copy of Didot's Virgil and I have always understood that, with the exception of one owned in the Brevoort family of New York, it was at that time the only copy in Ahout his whole life, and in looking back I delight to picture him as seated in his library surrounded by his beloved books In 1850, about two years after his death, his library was sold at auction, the catalogue of which covers 114 closely printed pages A the purchasers were William E Burton, the actor, Chief Justice Charles P Daly and Henry W Longfellow