thropy, which he had
devoted so many years of sacrifice, study, and labor, to mature and
prepare.

Accompanying the will, and inclosed in the same box, were certain
memoranda of instructions to his executors, who were distinguished
citizens of Baltimore and New-Orleans, including Henry Clay, of
Kentucky, and K. R. Gurley, of Washington City, These directions to his
executors are very minute and specific. Certain observations in this
document are worthy of being copied, as characteristic. His reasons for
preferring to invest in land are thus stated:

'For the base of a permanent revenue, (to stand through all time,
with, the blessing of the Most High,) I have preferred the earth,
'a part of the solid globe.' One thing is certain, it will not take
wings and fly away, as silver and gold, government and bank-stocks
often do. It is the only thing in this world of ours which
approaches to any thing like permanency; or in which at least there
is less mutation than in things of man's invention. The little
riches of this world, therefore, which the Most High has placed in
my hands, and over which he has been pleased to place and make me
his steward, I have invested therein, that it may yield (its
fruits) an annual revenue to the purpose I have destined it
forever.'

He also states his motives, as follows:

'My soul has all my life burned with an ardent desire to do
good--much good, great good--to my fellow-man, as it was chiefly by
that means, and through that channel, that I could bend, greatly
bend to the honor and glory of my Lord and Master,--which was my
soul's first, great, chief object and interest.'

He says, however, he has much to complain of the world, and gives
instances of its injustice, especially in suits, where his just claims
were ignored because he was rich:

'They said of me: 'He is rich, old, without wife or child; let us
take from him, then, what he has.' Infatuated men! they knew not
that it was an attempt to take from themselves, for I was laboring,
and had labored all my life, not for myself, but for them and their
children. Their attempts, however, made me not to swerve either to
the right hand or to the left, although to see and feel so sorely
their injustice and ingratitude made me often lament the frailty,
the perversity, and sinfulness of our fallen nature. I persevered