222
It is worthy of note that the magnificent new home of the Myrtilla Miner Normal School of Washington is named in honor of the same noble woman. It stands on a site formerly owned by the University and looks upon Miner Hall several hundred yards away across the campus.
223
Much credit for the skillful financial management of the institution during these critical times is due to the secretary and treasurer, Mr. James B. Johnson, who was a potent factor in the early struggles of the institution. He was secretary and treasurer for many years, dying while still in service in 1898.
224
William M. Patton, The History of Howard University, 1896, pp. 21, 22.
225
Mag. of Am. History, XVIII, 424.
226
Boutwell, Report, 1446, 1470.
227
Ibid., 608.
228
These letters are taken from E. B. Washburne's Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois, and of the Slavery Struggle of 1823-1824.
229
Ibid., p. 18.
230
Jefferson's reply was published in The Journal Op Negro History, Vol. III, p. 83.
231
The last paragraph of Mr. Birkbeck's letter cannot but excite admiration. The quotation from Horace applied with great force to the case of Governor Coles:
"Neither the ardor of citizens ordering base things, nor the face of the threatening tyrant shakes a man just and tenacious of principle from his firm intentions."
232
Hening's Statutes, Vol. X, p. 50.
233
Hening's Statutes, Vol. XI, p. 309; Treat, P. J., National Land System, p. 235.
234
Ibid., Vol. X, pp. 35-45.
235
Winterbotham, An Historical Geographical Commercial and Topographical View of the United States, Vol. 3, pp. 156-157.
236
Kentucky Land Grants, Book 13, p. 59.
237
Ibid., Book 8, p. 228.
238
Shaler's Autobiography, p. 33.
239
Michaux (Thwaite's Reprint), Travels to the West of the Allegheny Mountains, Vol. 3, p. 237.
240
Shaler, N. S., Kentucky, p. 196.
241
Greeley, Horace, Writings, Speeches and Addresses of Cassius M. Clay, p. 177.
242
Collected Documents, 1847, p. 581.
243
Stowe, Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, p. 143.
244
Louisville Weekly Journal, October 17, 1849.
245
Shaler's Autobiography, p. 36.
246