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The longer the war is protracted the more violently 

 will slavery be destroyed. For two years and a half 

 we have waged war, and lost more than half the ter- 

 ritory over which we asserted jurisdiction; the sup- 

 ply o"f cattle no longer comes'from Texas, nor does 

 cotton escape longer from the frontier to furnish us 

 supplies. The ilississippi bears a hundred gun- 

 boats, half of them iron-clads, that effectually pre- 

 vent our occupation of any point along its entire 

 course, or even the passage of it except under cover 

 of darkness, and by stealth. 



HADLEY, HEXRY HAMILTON, an American 

 Professor and Hebraist, born i:i Fairfield, 

 Herkimer Co., X. Y., July 19, 1826, died in 

 Washington, D. C., August 1, 1864, aged 38 

 years. He was the youngest of six children, 

 four of whom were sons. His father, James 

 Hadley, was Professor of Chemistry hi the 

 Medical College at Fairfield from 1812 to 1840, 

 and from that time until 1853 held the same 

 chair in the Medical College at Geneva, X. Y. 

 His son Henry pursued a course of preparatory 

 study, chiefly at the Fairfield Academy, and in 

 1842 entered the Hobart Episcopal College of 

 Geneva. After two years spent here he re- 

 moved to Xew Haven, Conn., where an elder 

 brother, James Hadley. was then residing and 

 entered Yale College as a sophomore. Here 

 he distinguished himself by his scholarship and 

 literary talents, and was graduated in 1847 

 with the highest honors of his class. He re- 

 mained connected with the college for one 

 year as a resident graduate, and then for two 

 years as a student in the Theological Depart- 

 ment. A third year of theological study was 

 passed in the Seminary at Andover, Mass. 

 From May, 1851. to December, 1852, he exer- 

 cised the office of tutor in Yale College. He 

 then removed to Xew York city and spent 

 some time in the study of the law, being led 

 to this profession by doubts as to his personal 

 fitness for the work of a Christian minister. 

 Becoming convinced, however, that theology 

 was his true field for effort and influence, he 

 returned to Xew Haven early in 1855, and 

 there spent more than three years in theologi- 

 cal pursuits, and especially in a systematic 

 study of the Hebrew language and the Old 

 Testament scriptures. In 1858 he was called 

 to the Union Theological Seminary, in Xew 

 York city, to give instruction in Hebrew as 

 mt to Professor Edward Robinson. He 

 remained until his death connected with that 

 institution. In 1861 he accepted, and held for 

 one year, the professorship of Hebrew in the 

 theological department of Yale College; but 

 he continued at the same time to act as an in- 

 structor in Xew Y^ork, and in 1862 he gave up 

 his post in Yale College, and received the pro- 

 fessorship of Hebrew in the Union Seminary. 

 He was an indefatigable teacher, laborious in 

 preparing his exercises, thorough in conduct- 

 .ng them, and full of expedients for keeping 

 up the interest and advancing the progress of 

 his classes. In private intercourse, also, he 

 exerted a strong influence on his pupils by the 

 unaffected kindness and goodness of his char- 



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acter. In his scholarship he was patient, clear, 

 and cautious, with a singular fairness of mind 

 and freedom from prejudice. Besides his knowl- 

 edge of the Hebrew language and literature, 

 he'had made considerable progress in other 

 Semitic languages ; but, unambitious and self- 

 distrustful, he gave to the public hardly any 

 thing beyond a few articles contributed to the 

 "American Theological Review." "\Vhen the 

 present war broke out his warmest sympathies 

 were enlisted for the cause of the country. 

 Having no family to provide for, he thought it 

 his duty to give his personal service as a soldier 

 to the Government, and only the unanimous 

 opposition of friends, who thought that the 

 country needed him more in his own depart- 

 ment of labor, prevented him from doing so. 

 But out of scanty means he placed two substi- 

 tutes, both carefully chosen, in the national 

 army ; and during his summer vacation of 

 1864 he offered his time for the work of tho 

 Sanitary Commission. He was sent to City 

 Point, Va., about the end of June, and was 

 engaged in the hospital of the 9th army 

 corps through most of July. But his assidu- 

 ous, and indeed excessive, labors brought on a 

 ll-ver, which ended in a sudden, collapse. 



HAMMOND, JAMES HEXEY, a statesman, 

 and former Governor of South Carolina, born 

 in Xewberry, South Carolina, Xovember 15th, 

 1807, died a*t Hamburg, in that State, Xovem- 

 ber 13th, 1864. His father, Elisha Hammond, 

 was a native of Rochester, Mass., a graduate 

 of Dartmouth College, removed to South Caro- 

 lina in 1801, was for a time professor of lan- 

 guages, and in 1816 was chosen President of 

 South Carolina College in Columbia. His son 

 graduated at that college in 1825, and com- 

 mencing at once the study of law was admitted 

 to the South Carolina bar in 1828. In 1830 

 he became editor of a political journal at Co- 

 lumbia, and advocated with zeal and consider- 

 able ability the doctrine of State Rights, and 

 nullification as a remedy for alleged oppression 

 on the part of the Federal Government. He 

 was then and through life an ardent supporter 

 of Mr. Calhoun's views. During the nullifica- 

 tion excitement he was on the staff of Gov- 

 ernor Hamilton, and subsequently of Governor 

 Hayne. In 1835 he was elected a member of 

 Congress from the Columbia district, but at the 

 end of his term declined a renomination, and 

 visited Europe, where he remained more than 

 a year. In 1842 he was elected Governor of 

 his native State. While Governor he pub- 

 lished a letter to the Free Church of Glasgow, 

 and two others in reply to an anti-slavery cir- 

 cular of Thomas Clarkson, M. P., of England, 

 in which he took extreme ground in favor of 

 slavery as sanctioned by the Scriptures, and as 

 a useful and beneficent institution. These letters 

 called forth strong and severe replies from 

 those to whom they were addressed. He pub- 

 lished several other essays on the same subject, 

 which, with the letters above mentioned, were 

 collected in a volume published in Charleston 



