slavery, or any other institution that has freedom for its foe,
provided always there is no lack of pay. As a divine, he is
particularly sensitive lest anything should be said disparagingly
against the institution he lends his aid to protect. That all
institutions founded in patriarchal usage are of God's creation, he
holds to be indisputable; and that working for their overthrow is a
great crime, as well as an unpardonable sin, he never had the
slightest doubt. He is careful of his clerical dress, which is of
smoothest black; and remembering how essential are gold-framed
spectacles, arranges and re-arranges his with greatest care. He is a
great admirer of large books with gilt edges and very expensive
bindings. They show to best advantage in the southern parlour
library, where books are rarely opened. To say the Elder is not a
man of great parts, is to circulate a libel of the first magnitude.
Indeed, he liked big books for their solidity; they reminded him of
great thoughts well preserved, and sound principles more firmly
established. At times he had thought they were like modern
democratic rights, linked to huge comprehending faculties, such as
was his good fortune to use when expounding state rights and federal
obligations.

Deacon Rosebrook is a comely, fair-faced man, a moderate thinker, a
charitable Christian, a very good man, who lets his deeds of
kindness speak of him. He is not a politician-no! he is a better
quality of man, has filled higher stations. Nor is he of the
modernly pious-that is, as piety professes itself in our democratic
world, where men use it more as a necessary appliance to subdue the
mind than a means to improve civilization. But he was always
cautious in giving expression to his sentiments, knowing the
delicate sensibilities of those he had to deal with, and fearing