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last proved to be an unfortunate business connexion ; 

 and, after about a year's continuance, either through the 

 mismanagement or dishonesty of his partner, he found 

 himself reduced to utter bankruptcy. 



This is, I am sorry to say, rather a common history ; 

 and many, thus situated, abandon hope, and yield them- 

 selves up to fatal despondency. Not so Judge Buel. 

 With the unshaken assurance of success, which naturally 

 results from the firm determination to deserve it, he saw, 

 with apparent indifference, the slow, labored, and rather 

 scanty, accumulations of some six or seven years sud- 

 denly swept from him ; and read, in this lesson of muta- 

 bility, at least the chance of elevation, as well as depres- 

 sion, in individual condition. He never, for one moment, 

 lost confidence in the general integrity of men, nor in the 

 ultimate success of industry and application. He left 

 Poughkeepsie, and removed to Kingston, where he es- 

 tabhshed a weekly paper, called the ' Plebeian.' Here he 

 continued, during the period of ten years, from 1803 to 

 1813, applying himself, with diligence and activity, to 

 his business. During a part of this time, he sustained, 

 with reputation, the office of Judge in the Ulster county 

 court ; and, by his persevering industry and well-direct- 

 ed application, he not only retrieved his losses, but also 

 acquired some considerable real and personal estate. 



In 1813, his reputation as an editor and a man having 

 made him favorably known to the public, he was induced, 

 through the exertions of Judge Spencer and some others, 

 to remove to the city of Albany, and to commence the 

 ' Albany Argus.' The next succeeding year, 1814, he 

 was appointed printer to the State, the duties of which, 

 together with the editorship of the Argus, he continued 

 to discharge until the year 1820 ; at which time, he sold 

 out, with the determination to abandon the printing busi- 

 ness. 



It is worthy of remark, that, while engaged in this bus^ 

 iness, he always performed, himself, the labor essential to 

 its successful prosecution. He was always the setter of 

 his own types, and, until he came to Albany, the worker 

 of^is own press. Is there not something, in the very 



