impressed on my recollection; he had very
considerable literary taste; was many years editor of the New-York
_Statesman_; and after his visit to Europe, published his _Letters_ on his
tour, in two large volumes. His merit was only equalled by his modesty. He
was strongly devoted to Dewitt Clinton and the Erie Canal; with becoming
tenacity he cherished much regard for his eastern brethren, and was the
first I think who introduced his personal friend, our constitutional
expositor, Daniel Webster, to the Bread and Cheese Lunch, founded by J.
Fenimore Cooper, at which sometimes met, in familiar discussions, such
minds as those of Chief Justice Jones, Peter A. Jay, Henry Storrs,
Professor Renwick, John Anthon, Charles King, John Duer, and others of
like intellectual calibre. Carter was of a feeble frame, struggling with
pulmonary annoyance, from which he died early. He was little initiated in
the trickery of political controversy. His heart was filled with the
kindliest feelings of which nature is susceptible.

My acquaintance with the late Colonel Stone, so long connected with the
_Commercial Advertiser_, commenced while he was the efficient editor of
the _Albany Daily Advertiser_. His devotion to the best interests of the
state and country; his extensive knowledge of American history; his
patriotic feeling evinced on all occasions in behalf of our injured
Aborigines; his biographies of Red Jacket and Brandt; his great political
consistency during so many years--all commend him to our kindest and most
grateful recollections. That he was cut off at a comparatively early age,
was the result of his severe and unremitting literary toils. With a
touching patience, he endured an agonizing illness, nor did he cease his
useful labors till exhausted nature forbade further efforts.

About the time of the death of Colonel Stone, New-York lost a valuable
promoter of its substantial interests by the demise of John Pintard. His
career is still fresh in the memories of those who cherish the actions of
the benevolent and humane. He was a native of this city (born in 1759),
where he passed the greater part of his life, and died in 1844, in his
eighty-sixth year. He was connected with the newspaper press in the
earlier times of the _Daily Advertiser_. Pintard was well acquainted with
nearly all the distinguished public characters at the period of the
adoption of our constitution. Possessed of sound attainments by his
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