[28] [In refusing to repeal what are technically and significantly termed her "Black Laws," relating to the settlement of colored men, and their rights within that state.—ED.]
[29] John Quincy Adams.
[30] For her treatment of a sister republic in our late war with Mexico.
[31] Miss Delia Webster.
[32] Hon. Samuel Hoar, sent to Charleston, S. C., to test in the courts her laws, and driven thence with his daughter by a mob.
[33] It is well known that in this sketch my sister gives an account of an incident in the history of her own school-girl life. I need scarcely say that only so far as this incident is concerned is the story of Mariana in any sense autobiographical.—ED.
[34][Agis, king of Sparta, the fourth of that name. "One of the most beautiful characters of antiquity."—ED.]
[35] [In New York.—ED.]
[36] Meta, the wife of Klopstock, one of Germany's most celebrated poets, is doubtless well known to many of our readers through the beautiful letters to Samuel Richardson, the novelist, or through Mrs. Jameson's work, entitled the Loves of the Poets. It is said that Klopstock wrote continually to her even after her death.
[37] Fact, that this is affirmed.