Oui, c'est moi. Que puis-je faire pour vous? Et il regardait cette figure désolée.

Grâce pour qui ?

་ Je suis la mère du jeune homme que vous avez condamné. » «Cathelineau se cacha le visage.

ll- Ne demandez rien pour ce malheureux, je ne puis rien. J'ai demandé sa grâce au nom de ces deux jeunes femmes, et je n'ai rien obtenir on veut un exemple, et il est nécessaire.

pu

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Oh! grâce, grâce !... mon fils est le seul qui me reste de quatre enfants que j'avais. Les autres sont morts dans vos rangs comme de saints martyrs qu'ils sont. Lui seul s'est égaré par de mauvais conseils; il s'est fait volontaire de la République; il m'a donné bien des chagrins pour ses opinions républicaines. Mais qui sait? quand il me saura seule et si malheureuse, peut-être il reviendra à de bons sentiments. Ne me l'ôtez pas, ne m'ôtez pas le seul espoir qui me reste. »

« Et la pauvre femme demeurait à genoux sans vouloir, et peutêtre sans pouvoir se relever.

-))

Si j'avais des trésors, je les donnerais pour racheter mon fils; hélas! je ne suis qu'une pauvre femme.

-))

- Eh! que sommes-nous donc, nous autres?... nous ne sommes que de pauvres gens, dirent les femmes en se rapprochant d'elle.

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moi !

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Eh bien, entre pauvres gens on s'entr'aide; ayez pitié de

Écoutez, ma bonne femme trois enfants perdus pour la bonne cause, cela plaidera peut-être pour vous. Je vais retourner au conseil et j'y ferai de mon mieux, comptez-y bien. »>

<< Cathelineau partit. Pendant son absence nous cherchâmes à consoler et à réconforter la pauvre vieille. Elle était épuisée de fatigue et de chagrin, et nous conta que son jeune fils avait été bon dans son enfance, et qu'une amourette avec une pataude avait causé ses fautes. Cette femme l'avait détourné; mais le fond n'était pas méchant. «Il faut lui laisser le temps d'oublier sa folie et de retourner à Dieu. » Oh! comme elle pleurait cette pauvre mère !

<< Cathelineau revint bientôt son visage était sombre.

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- Je n'ai pu rien obtenir, nous dit-il. Cet homme avait reçu sa

REPORT.

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE

INSTRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB,

Washington, October 29, 1870.

SIR: In compliance with the acts of Congress making provision for the support of this institution, we have the honor to report its progress during the year ending June 30, 1870.

NUMBER OF PUPILS.

The pupils remaining in the institution on the 1st day of July, 1869, numbered

Admitted during the year.

Since admitted..

Total

Under instruction since July 1, 1869, males 72, females 18. Of these fifty-two have been in the collegiate department, representing twenty States and the District of Columbia, and forty-eight in the primary department. Seven have left the college during the year, and three have left the primary department, one of these latter having been expelled for misconduct. The pupils that now remain connected with the institution, ninety in number, are equally divided between the two departments.

HEALTH OF THE INSTITUTION.

Through the sparing mercy of a kind Providence we are permitted to record the fact that none of our pupils have been removed by death, and that no alarming disease has made its appearance during the year. The few cases of sickness that have demanded the notice of the attending physician have been slight in degree and have in every instance yielded readily to treatment.

DEATH OF HON. AMOS KENDALL AND HON. B. B. FRENCH.

The institution has, however, been sorely afflicted in the removal by death of two of its most honored directors.

Hon. Amos Kendall, the founder and first president of the institution, passed from earth on the 12th of November, 1869, at the venerable age of eighty-one years.

At a special meeting of the board, on Tuesday, November 16, 1869, the following proceedings relative to the death of Mr. Kendall took place. The president made official announcement of the death of Mr. Kendall, after which, Rev. Dr. Sunderland offered the following resolutions: Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, in the unsearchable wisdom of His providence, to remove by death our late associate in this board, the Hon. Amos Kendall, at the

advanced age of eighty-one years, and after a life of the highest usefulness and honor; therefore,

Resolved, That in this event we, the surviving members of this board. feeling the full weight of the affliction, both to ourselves and to the institution of which he was the founder and for several years the most powerful patron, do at the same time recognize in it the righteous hand of our Father in heaven, and bow in filial submission to the ordering of His soverign will.

Resolved, That in the character and history of our departed friend the faculties that ennoble and the virtues that adorn our nature in all the relations, whether of public or private station, had a most conspicuous illustration. Endowed with an intellect of the largest grasp and of the clearest perception, he comprehended with equal facility the plainest and the deepest problems of human interest; with whatever subject he was called to deal, whether in science or religion, in Church or State, in his hands its obscurities vanished, its difficulties disappeared. A man at once of the greatest simplicity, the greatest probity, and the greatest resolution, he was equal to any task and fitted for any position of trust or honor that was in fact or that might have been assigned him among his fellow-countrymen. And in the successive periods of his career we cannot fail to mark those rare qualities which most distinguished the man, the citizen. and the Christian, and which so signally combined in him, now furnish to the youth of our country an impressive and inspiring example.

Resolved, That, above all other things, we acknowledge a deep and grateful sense of that Divine grace which, especially during the later years of his life, was shed upon him. and which gave to the close of his earthly existence the splendor of a cloudless sunset. the harbinger of human hope and the day-dawn of man's glorious immortality.

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered in the records of this board and published in the city journals, and that a copy of them be transmitted to the family of the deceased.

Mr. French seconded their adoption with the following remarks: This month of November 1869 will stand in the annals of the future as remarkable on account of the deaths of eminent individuals who have gone from among manking during its continuance. George Peabody, Admiral Stewart, General Wool, Robert J. Walker, and Amos Kendall-names known to the world, and which shall forever live in history-have all passed away during this month, now only half expired.

We here have now especially to notice the death of Amos Kendall, who died in this city on Friday last, the 12th instant, full of years and full of honors, he having been born in August 1789, and having been prominent from his early manhood to his death as a man belonging to the nation.

As I aided on Sunday last in bearing his mortal remains from Calvary Church. I could not but recall the time when, on the evening of October 19, 1867, I witnessed the feeling ovation which was paid to him in that very church by his warm friends, who took that method of expressing toward him their affection and also their joy a his safe return from an European tour of considerable length. I remembered how I saw him, old as he was, walk down that very aisle, arm-in-arm with the pastor of the church, with a step as elastic, and a form as erect as if the weight of not more than a score of years was upon him. I remembered how we all rose to greet him; how we passed around and welcomed him home individually, and how we all delighted to honor him; and how I wished and hoped that he might be spared to us for many years. Alas! that hope could not be gratified beyond the brief period of two short years. and I was one who was honored with the sacred office of bearing his venerated form from that church of his love toward its last resting-place on earth.

He had my esteem and respect while living, and I feel that it is an impossibility that I can pay too much honor to his memory now that he has departed.

Mr. Kendall was personally known to me for the last thirty-six years of his life. I knew him well by reputation ten years, at least, before I became personally acquainted with him, he having studied law with Chief Justice William M. Richardson, with whose family I was intimately connected, and in which Mr. Kendall was ever spoken of in terms of high praise and affectionate remembrance. And as evidence of a recip rocal feeling on the part of Mr. Kendall, I will say that the first time I met him, after we heard of the death of Judge Richardson, he said to me, "My love and respect for Judge Richardson were only surpassed by the love and respect I had for my good old

father."

I came to Washington in December, 1833, and Mr. Kendall was one of the first persons with whom I became acquainted.

When the magnetic telegraph was in its swaddling-clothes Mr. Kendall was associated with myself and a few others in nursing it into adult life. We were directors of the first company ever formed in the world, and we were both presidents of it at different times. We were co-laborers in bringing the great invention of Professor Morse from infancy to full manhood, and both of us had the extreme satisfaction of seeing our ittle line of two insignificant wires, extending from Washington to Philadelphia, grow

into a huge net-work, covering nearly the whole earth, and spreading itself beneath the billows of the heaving ocean, bearing the whispers of man to man thousands of miles asunder.

This association led to a frequent intercourse between us. We met together, we traveled together, we occupied the same hotels together, and I enjoyed exceedingly the volumes of instruction and information which I derived from his ever-active and well-informed mind.

Again, in this board I met him; first as its president and then as a brother director, where you have all seen him, and respected, aye, loved him, while he poured out before you in his modest and unassuming manner sage counsels and wise advice.

Mr. Kendall, from his first entrance into business life, was a man of mark. Whatever he undertook he prosecuted with all his might. He seldom, if ever, started into anything until he assured himself that it was right, but once in there was no compromising; he pursued his object with a zeal and ability that assured success.

Honest in every action of his life, true to every principle he ever professed, patriotic to the last drop of his blood, with a courage, both physical and moral, that admitted of no retreat, he went forward, and did not, as such a man could not, escape the tongue of slander and reproach. But he lived it all down; he came out of the furnace the pure and refined gold of human nature, and in his latter days was acknowledged by all as one of the best of men.

He has gone from us in all the glory of an honest Christian man. "Joy, joy!" were the last words he uttered, and I doubt not that he now participates in that real "joy” which awaits all who live and die as he did.

Mr. McGuire paid a tribute to the memory of the deceased in the following remarks:

Mr. McGuire said that he felt impelled to speak some of the thoughts and feelings with which the occasion filled his mind and heart. For more than thirty-three years he had known Mr. Kendall intimately, and throughout that time had enjoyed his friendship and his personal confidence. It is (continued Mr. McGuire) with much satisfaction, and with a melancholy pleasure, that I now recall the many evidences of his regard and esteem, as shown on the frequent occasions of our confidential interviews as personal friends. I knew of all the important business matters in which he was engaged, and I believe there were none, from the commencement of our acquaintance until the day of his death, in regard to which he did not advise with and consult me.

I had often heard of Amos Kendall at my home in Pennsylvania, and being of the old democratie party, and interested in whatever affected its great leaders, I read everything that was writen in the papers of my section about Mr. Kendall, whether in his favor or against him. So severe and bitter were the attacks upon him, and such the frightful character of the description given of him by his political enemies, that when I came to Washington on a visit, in 1832, I expected to find, as the subject of these political portraits, a large, athletic and burly man, of fierce and angry demeanor, with bowie knives in his belt, and ready to remove with violence or crush by main strength whatever impeded his way or opposed his progress. His intellectual power had wrought upon the fears of his enemies, and their descriptions had wrought upon my fancy. When I saw the man myself, spare and light in figure, with a face full of kindness and thought, and of pleasant, courteous, and gentle manners, I could scarcely realize that he was indeed the person my mind had pictured as Amos Kendall.

Shortly after this visit I came to Washington to reside, and it was my good fortune to live next door to Mr. Kendall. An intimacy grew up between the families. I saw him in his domestic life, and probably had a better opportunity to observe him at home, and see his inner life, than any person not a member of his immediate family. He was always gentle and kind, and delighted in the company of children, sharing in their amusements, and drawing them to him by that sympathy which children are so quick to discover.

I have sometimes gone to his house, (continued Mr. McGuire,) and found him stretched out on the floor with his own children and mine romping around and upon him, pulling at him, and tumbling over him, and he as merry and happy and as full of the sport as any of the little ones. At other times I have found them at the game of blind-man'sbuff, with Mr. Kendall playing the part of the blinded man, and the little ones romping away from him around the room, and he in the sport and in the spirit as much of a child as any among them. Whatever sports would amuse them he was ready to engage in, and he seemed always to come among them with a heart as young and light as their own.

He had some views in regard to matters connected with the duty and responsibility of official position which might now be regarded as old-fashioned. While he was Postmaster General, I happened to be with him on one occasion when Mr. Reeside was present. Mr. Reeside said to him: "Mr. Kendall, whenever you desire to travel, my

REVUE POLITIQUE.

Paris, 24 juin 1847.

SITUATION GÉNÉRALE. L'EUROPE ET LA FRANCE. Nous assistons à un bien triste spectacle, et quoique rien de ce qui se passe ne soit imprévu pour nous, notre âme n'en est pas moins affectée, nous ne nous en sentons pas moins humiliés et inquiets: humiliés pour la France, que l'Europe contemple avec une malicieuse satisfaction d'amour-propre, inquiets pour l'avenir que nous prépare une société livrée au délire de l'égoïsme matériel.

PRUSSE. Le contraste de notre décadence avec les progrès qui s'accomplissent ailleurs ne peut manquer en effet de frapper tous les regards. Il y a vingt ans, la France, par l'énergie de ses convictions et son élan vers toutes les idées généreuses, semblait protester contre la tendance unanime des gouvernements absolus dont elle était entourée; aujourd'hui, la retraite de l'absolutisme est évidente, et les nations de l'Europe qui avaient paru jusqu'ici les plus retardées dans leur marche semblent déterminées à profiter des bons exemples que nous avons donnés dans le passé et à éviter nos fautes comme nos crimes. Le spectacle que présente en ce moment la Diète prussienne est aussi noble qu'instructif. Il a suffi du grand jour de la délibération pour faire justice des théories d'une école qui était parvenue jusqu'à présent à dissimuler ses tendances serviles sous une apparence de profondeur historique. Les gouvernements de l'Allemagne doivent renoncer désormais à spéculer sur le sentiment national et sur la défiance qu'ils ont soigneusement entretenue contre nous, les anciens oppresseurs du pays : la haute raison de la Diète a su parfaitement distinguer entre les atteintes que nous avons portées sur les pas d'un conquérant à l'indépendance des autres peuples, atteintes qui dès longtemps ont rejailli sur nous-mêmes, et les principes