NEHLIG NETTLETON. 



17 



more enlightened, and wherever character and talent 

 are exhibited they have been appreciated and ap-. 

 plauded. It is different in the old slave States, since 

 the prejudices and customs of centuries will not yield 

 to nobler sentiments in a few decades. When the freed- 

 nian acquires both education and property he will re- 

 turn to politics as a potent but peaceful factor ; and 

 his rights, so long denied, will be accorded him as the 

 irresistible logic of civilization. Meanwhile, the friends 

 of humanity, in all sections of a common country, will 

 create a public sentiment friendly to the negro as a 

 citizen, as a laborer, and as a man. Within two cen- 

 turies the black race will have been merged into a 

 composite American nationality, and the legends of 

 its wrongs will have been wrought into a literature 

 that will thrill the heart of the civilized world with 

 passionate grief. 



List of Authorities Conrulted: Sakluyt's Voyages; 

 Holmes' American Archive! ; Court and Times of James 

 First; Chalmert' American Colonies ; Hildreth't History of 

 the United States ; Palfrey's History of New England ; Force's 

 American Archives; Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen; 

 Some Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa, as Con- 

 nected with Europe and America; Astley's Voyages; 

 Eward's West Indies; Josse/yn's Voyages; The Htitchinson 

 Papers; The Madison Papers; The Journal* of Congress ; 

 Elliot's Debates; Hurd's Bondage and Freedom; Mutt's 

 Sketches, etc. (o. w. w.) 



NEHLIG, VICTOR, a French-American painter, was 

 born at Paris in 1830. He studied under Abel de 

 Pujol and Cogniet. He settled at New York in 1856, 

 and was made a member of the National Academy in 

 1870. Several of his pictures relate to American his- 

 tory and romance. Among these are Gertrude of 

 Wyoming, Hiawatha and Minnchaha, and Pocahontas. 



NKLATON, AriiisTK (1807-1873), a French sur- 

 geon^ was born at Paris, June 17, 1807, being son of a 

 captain of the Imperial guard, killed at Wagrani. He 

 studied medicine and surgery under Dupuytren, and 

 received his degree in I Kit). He became adjunct pro- 

 fessor in the faculty of Paris in 1839, and after a com- 

 petitive examination in Is.jj. professor of clinical 

 surgery. In 1844 he published his Elfinmtx de jnitho- 

 logte chirurgidde. which established his reputation as 

 an expositor. The work was enlarged by his pupils 

 and passed through many editions. In 1856 Nt'laton 

 was admitted to the Academy of Medieme, and in 1867 

 to the Academy of Sciences. His professional prac- 

 tice extended throughout France and even bevond its 

 borders. In 1862 he astonished the world by his cure 

 of Garibaldi's wound, received at Asproinonte two 

 months before Nelaton reached him. In 1866 he was 

 made surgeon to Napoleon III. , and having effected a 

 remarkable cure in the case of the prince imperial, he 

 was made grand officer of the Legion of Honor, and 

 senator. He died at Paris. Sept. 22, 1873. His lec- 

 tures were noted for their clearness and his operations 

 for their almost magical success. With the simplest 

 possible means he seemed to achieve the most impor- 

 tant results. His improvements in surgery were happy 

 modifications of pre-existing methods rather than en- 

 tirely original processes. He assisted in the Rapport 

 fur In tTOffrtfdtla Chirurgie (1867), and published 

 some special treatises. 



NELSON, DAVID (1793-1844), clergyman, was born 

 near Jonesborough, Tenn., Sept. 24, 1793. He gradu- 

 ated at Washington College, Va., in 1810. and studied 

 medicine at Danville, Ky., and at the Philadelphia 

 Medical School. He was surgeon of a Kentucky regi- 

 ment in the war of 1 8 1 2. For a time he was a skeptic, 

 but, returning to the religions belief in which he had 

 been trained, gave up his medical practice and became 

 Kyteriaii minister in 1825. After preaching in 

 various parts of Tennessee and Kentucky, he removed 

 in 1830 to Marion co. . Mo., where he established a col- 

 lege. He was an advocate of emancipation and in 

 1836, on account of disturbances arising from this 

 cause, he removed to Quincy, 111. , where for a time he 

 VOL. IV.-B. 



conducted a training school for missionaries. He died 

 at Oakland, 111., Oct. 17, 1844. He was the author 

 of The Cause and Cure of Infidelity, which had an 

 extensive circulation. 



NELSON, THOMAS (1738-1789), a signer of the 

 Declaration of Independence, was born in York co., 

 Va., Dec. 26, 1738. He was educated at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, England, and while on his way home 

 in 1759 was elected to the house of burgesses. He was 

 member of provincial conventions in 1774-75, and was 

 made colonel of the Second Virginia regiment, but 

 resigned on being elected to the Continental Congress. 

 Here he signed the Declaration of Independence. He 

 opposed the sequestration of British property; he 

 made large advances from his private property for the 

 benefit of the State, and was thereby greatly embar- 

 rassed. In 1781 he was governor of Virginia, and 

 called out the militia to oppose the British, who were 

 then ravaging the State. He died at Yorktown, Va., 

 Jan. 4, 1789. Two of his brothers were officers in 

 the revolutionary army. 



NELSON, WILLIAM (1825-1862), general, was 

 born at Maysville, Ky., in 1825. He entered the navy 

 in 1 840, and commanded a naval battery at the siege 

 of Vera Cruz in 1847. He rose to the rank of lieuten- 

 ant, and in 1 858 was on board the Niagara, which car- 

 ried back to Africa the negroes taken from the slaver 

 Echo. At the outbreak of the civil war he was on 

 ordnance duty in Washington, and was sent to com- 

 mand the gunboats on the Ohio. Being placed under 

 the authority of the Secretary of War, he organized 

 camps in Kentucky for the mustering of Union troops. 

 He was made brigadier-general Sept. 16, 1861, and 

 commanded the second division of Buell's army at the 

 battle of Shiloh. He took command of Louisville 

 when it was threatened by Gen . Bragg. He was made 

 major-general of volunteers, July 17, 1862. In a per- 

 sonal quarrel with Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, occasioned 

 by his overbearing disposition, he was shot and killed, 

 Sept. 29. 1862. 



S KM OURS, Louis CHARLES PHILIPPE RAPHAEL 

 i)' ORLEANS, Due DE, was born at Paris, Oct. 25, 1814. 

 He was the second son of King Louis Philippe, but 

 was educated as one of the people at the College Henri 

 IV., and gave especial attention to science. In 1834, 

 after he had served two campaigns in the field, he was 

 made marshal. In 1836 he went to Algeria, where he 

 rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1840 he 

 married the Duchess of Coburg-Gotha (1822-1857). 

 The premature death of his elder brother gave hini 

 increased importance, but though he was diligent in 

 performing public duties his popularity was never 

 great. At the outbreak of the revolution of February, 

 1848, he was in command of a body of troops and he 

 accompanied the Duchess of Orleans when she made 

 an ineffectual appeal to the chamber of deputies. 

 After assisting the royal family to escape to England, 

 he fixed his residence at Claremont. He remained 

 quiet during the reign of Napoleon III., but after his 

 downfall in 1870 ootained permission to return to 

 France, and was soon restored to the list of generals. 

 Even then he did not busy himself in the attempts at 

 a fusion of the monarchical factions. In September, 

 1873, with his nephew, the Due de Chartres, he vis- 

 ited the Comte de Chanibord at Frohsdorf. In 1879 

 he was placed on the retired list. 



His son, Louis, Comte d'Eu. born April 28, 1842, 

 married the eldest daughter of Dom Pedro II., Em- 

 peror of Brazil, and is a marshal of the Brazilian army. 

 His second son, Ferdinand, Due d'Alengon, was born 

 July 12, 1844. and became a captain in the French 

 artillery- He married Sophia, daughter of Duke 

 Maximilian of Bavaria. In 1886 republican jealousy 

 required him to leave the army and depart from 

 France. 



NETTLETON, ASAHEL (1783-1844), evangelist, 

 was born at North Killingworth, Conn., April 21, 1783. 

 He graduated at Yale College in J809, studied theolo-y 



