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Essex County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
portrait I entrust to your Honor's keeping. The Hon. James Mercer Garnett, of Elmwood, Essex county, Va., was born June 8th, 1770, the second child and oldest son of ten children. His father, Muscoe Garnett, of Essex county, was the son of James Garnett and Elizabeth Muscoe, his second wife, the daughter of Captain Salvator Muscoe, and was the only child of that marriage. He was the grandso before the Revolutionary War. During that war he was a member of the Committee of Safety for Essex County, which regulated the military affairs of the county. He, his father, and his son were vestry. It may be mentioned, as an evidence that the memory of this school is still preserved in Essex county, that, at the conclusion of this address, a gentleman stated to the writer that he had in hisers, conduct, and intellectual improvement, addressed to Mrs. Garnett's pupils at Elmwood, Essex county, Va., 1825-6, whose object is shown by their title. Moral and religious education was carrie
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
n evidence that the memory of this school is still preserved in Essex county, that, at the conclusion of this address, a gentleman stated to the writer that he had in his possession a Bible which was given to his mother by Mr. Garnett when she was an attendant at the school. During the four years of his service in Congress Mr. Garnett formed many warm friendships. Among the closest and most lasting were those with John Randolph, of Virginia, Richard Stanford and Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, and Edward Lloyd and Francis S. Key, of Maryland, all of whom except the last were his colleagues. These gentlemen called themselves Republicans, in distinction from the Federalists of the day, but they were also known as The Third Party, as they frequently opposed measures of the regular administration, Republican, and they were particularly noted as strong States-rights men. As is well known, the Democratic party of the present day is the successor of the old Republican party. Mr. Ga
Ohio Canal (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
eneral Court in 1780, and a judge of the Court of Appeals of five judges in 1789, in which year he was also appointed one of the revisors of the laws of Virginia. He was the father of General Charles Fenton Mercer, of Aldie, Loudoun county, who was a member of the Virginia Legislature, 1810-17, except while in military service during the war of 1812, of the United States Congress, 1817-39, of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30 and was the first President of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. The following is a brief record of the official life of James Mercer Garnett as far as it can be traced. I have been informed that he was a member of the Virginia Legislature of 1798-99, and that he voted for the celebrated resolutions of that session denouncing the alien and sedition acts; but I think it is more probable that he was a member during the following session and voted for the adoption of Mr. Madison's report on those resolutions. Mr. Madison, the father of the resolution
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
erify. Besides the paper above mentioned Mr. Garnett wrote also for the Argis, the Richmond Enquirer, The National Intelligencer, and other Newspapers, and for the Southern Literary Messenger, often under the signature Oliver Old School, Ruffin's Farmer's Register, and later in life for Judge Bird's Albany Cultivator. He delivered many lectures on agriculture and education in other States as well as in Virginia. Mr. Garnett was a member of our Anti-tariff Convention that assembled in Baltimore in 1821, and was appointed to write an address which was published in Skinner's American Farmer. He was also a member of another Anti-tariff Convention held in Philadelphia in 1831. This Convention addressed a memorial to Congress that was written by Thomas R. Dew, President of William and Mary College. There were fifteen States represented in it, among them Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and other Northern as well as Southern States. Mr. Garnett's interest in the promotion o
Tappahannock (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
Hon. James Mercer Garnett. an Address by Professor James Mercer Oarnett, On presenting the portrait of Hon. James M. Garnett in the Court-room at Tappahannock, Essex county, Va., Judge Thos. R. B. Wright of the Circuit Court Presiding— June 20, 1898. [Judge Wright, who as worthily wears the ermine as he did honor to the cause, as a Confederate soldier, has been indefatigable in his efforts to secure for the court-room at Tappahannock the portraits of distinguished and worthy men of thTappahannock the portraits of distinguished and worthy men of the vicinage of his circuit. This comprehends a section which has been singularly productive of men whose lives have been excellent and who have signally aided in making the history of our State and country. The walls of his courtroom are now graced with a galaxy of the countenances of men of whose virtues and abilities any people might justly be proud. Such an assembled view can but prove in the highest degree inspiriting and helpful in directing the character of youth. Judge Wright may look
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
married on September 21st, 1793, his first cousin, Mary Eleanor Dick Mercer, only daughter of Judge James Mercer, of Fredericksburg, and his wife, Eleanor Dick, daughter of Major Charles Dick, of Scottish parentage and of Revolutionary fame. James ublished three letters on the present calamitous state of affairs, addressed to J. M. Garnett, Esq., President of the Fredericksburg Agricultural Society, strongly advocating protection for American manufactures. Of the society just named Mr. Garn agriculture, his neighbor Waring ploughed his corn. Mr. Garnett's annual addresses to the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg were attended by both ladies and gentlemen, and he succeeded in making these addresses very popular. With great perss ardently devoted to the close of his life. For more than twenty years he presided over the Agricultural Society of Fredericksburg, always assiduous in the discharge of his duty and never flagging, even when his fellow-laborers were in despair. Hi
Gloucester county (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
Permit me then, sir, to read a brief sketch of the life of him whose portrait I entrust to your Honor's keeping. The Hon. James Mercer Garnett, of Elmwood, Essex county, Va., was born June 8th, 1770, the second child and oldest son of ten children. His father, Muscoe Garnett, of Essex county, was the son of James Garnett and Elizabeth Muscoe, his second wife, the daughter of Captain Salvator Muscoe, and was the only child of that marriage. He was the grandson of John Garnett, of Gloucester county, supposed to be first of the family that came from England to this country, although this is not certain, as the family records do not trace his ancestry further back. Muscoe Garnett, as his father before him, was a large landed proprietor, and built Elmwood before the Revolutionary War. During that war he was a member of the Committee of Safety for Essex County, which regulated the military affairs of the county. He, his father, and his son were vestrymen of Vawter's church, built i
Elmwood, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
here he lived there he died and is buried, at Elmwood on the Rappahannock, never residing away fromhim, was a large landed proprietor, and built Elmwood before the Revolutionary War. During that wardeath. The originals of these letters are at Elmwood, and a copy is in my possession. In Augustvement, addressed to Mrs. Garnett's pupils at Elmwood, Essex county, Va., 1825-6, whose object is swere employed to conduct this boys' school at Elmwood, and Mr. Garnett took the same part in it thas, and he is buried in the family cemetery at Elmwood. A brief notice of his death in the Americanhnson Barbour who attended the boys school at Elmwood in 1829, being a schoolmate there of Muscoe R love and gratitude. During my whole stay at Elmwood she was indeed a mother to me, chiding me genbe of interest in the newspapers. He adds of Elmwood: I need not attempt any description of ElmwooElmwood, I will only say that it has suggested some of the fine old English houses to me, and for years a
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
ion in other States as well as in Virginia. Mr. Garnett was a member of our Anti-tariff Convention that assembled in Baltimore in 1821, and was appointed to write an address which was published in Skinner's American Farmer. He was also a member of another Anti-tariff Convention held in Philadelphia in 1831. This Convention addressed a memorial to Congress that was written by Thomas R. Dew, President of William and Mary College. There were fifteen States represented in it, among them Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and other Northern as well as Southern States. Mr. Garnett's interest in the promotion of agriculture was very great, and his exertions for that object commenced early in life and continued to old age, even to the detriment of his own interests. Charles Carter Lee, in his poem Virginia Georgics, has a humorous couplet to the effect that, while Garnett lectured on agriculture, his neighbor Waring ploughed his corn. Mr. Garnett's annual addresses to the A
Leesburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.23
ectures to the school once in each quarter. These lectures on Female Education were published in 1824 and 1825, and rapidly went through four editions. I am the fortunate possessor of a copy of the second edition of the lectures (Richmond, 1824), embellished with a portrait in water colors of Mr. Garnett, drawn by his cousin, Miss Margaret Mercer (daughter of Governor John Francis Mercer, of Maryland), who herself for many years had a school for young ladies at Belmont, near Leesburg, in Loudoun county. Did time permit it would be interesting to quote from the Gossip's Manual, or Maxims of Conversation and Conduct adapted to both Sexes and all ages beyond childhood, which is prefixed to the lectures, as illustrating Mr. Garnett's humor and the quaint manners of the time. These lectures were followed by a volume of lectures on various topics of morals, manners, conduct, and intellectual improvement, addressed to Mrs. Garnett's pupils at Elmwood, Essex county, Va., 1825-6,
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