“Perhaps not,” responded Josiah; “if Providence introduces him into a better calling, I shall not object; but I want he should be satisfied with this until the better one comes.” As the time drew near for Benjamin to exchange school for the candle-factory, his disappointment increased....
Daniel Frost, of Jackson County, was elected speaker, and Gibson Lamb Cranmer, of Ohio County, clerk. Governor Pierpont [sic Peirpoint]'s message to that body is one of the most remarkable state papers connected with the restored government. Having dwelt upon the conditions of existing civil ...