lification parties at the time, I extract from the Journal the vote as recorded on the final passage of the "Ordinance to Nullify Certain Acts of Congress," etc.

THOSE VOTING AYE ARE: B. Adams, James Adams, Ayer, James Anderson, Robert Anderson, Arnold, Baker, Ball, Bee, Boone, Barnwell, Bardwell, Blewett, Butler, J. G. Brown, John Brown, Bauskett, A. Burt, F. Burt, Barton, Bowie, Black, Belin, Cohen, Cordes, Colcock, Charles G. Capers, Clifton, Caughman, Counts, Chambers, Campbell, Dubose, Dawson, Douglas, Elmore, Earle, Evans, Felder, Fuller, T. L. Gourdin, P. G. Gourdin, Goodwin, Gaillard, Griffin, Glenn, Gregg, J. Hamilton, Sr., Heyward, Hayne, Harper, Harrison, Hatton, Harllee, Huguenin, l'On, Jeter, Johnston, James, Jacobs, Keith, Key, King, LaCoste, Legare, Lawton, Long, Lipscomb, Logan, Littlejohn, Lancaster, Magrath, Markley, Maner, Murry, Mills, McCall, Means, Mays, McDuffie, Monroe, S. D. Miller, J. L. Miller, J. B. Miller, McCord, Novell, O'Brannon, Philips, Parker, Porcher, Palmer, C. C. Pinckney, W. C. Pinckney, T. Pinckney, Quash, Rivers, Rowe, Rogers, Ray, J. G. Spann, J. Spann, Simons, Shand, J. M. Smith, G. H. Smith, W. Smith, S. Smith, Stringfellow, Scott, Symmes, Sims, Singleton, Stevens, Screven, Turnbull, Tyler, Tidyman Ulmer, Vaught, Vanderhorst, Wilson, Walker, Williams, Williamson, Woodward, Wardlaw, Whatley, Whitfield, Watt, Ware, Waties, Warren, Young, and the president of the Convention (James Hamilton, Jr.)-136 ayes.

THOSE VOTING NO ARE: Brockman, Burgess, Crooke, Cureton, Chestnut, Cannon, Clinton, J. R. Ervin, R. Ervin, J. P. Evans, Gibson, A. Huger, D. E. Huger, Levy, Lowry, Manning, Midleton, O'Neal, P. Phelps, Perry, John S. Richardson, J. P. Richardson, Rowland, Shannon, Whitten, and Wilkins-36 noes.

Those voting against the ordinance refused to sign the instrument, protesting against it as being unwise and inexpedient.

The vigorous measures enforced by President Jackson to collect the revenues of the government, and the mediation of the State of Virginia, through her Commissioner, the Hon. Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and the act of Congress "reducing and modifying the duties on foreign imports," passed after the action of the Convention, induced this body to pass an ordinance in March, 1833, rescinding the Ordinance of Nullification. The dissolution of the Convention on the 18th

of March, put at rest the question of Nullification, and allayed all apprehensions of a conflict with the general government or of civil war.

In the meantime, the course pursued by Mr. Memminger had not only brought him prominently before the people of Charleston, but had made him quite popular there; so much so, that at the next city election he was made an alderman of the city by a decided majority. He had previously wooed and won the love of Miss Mary Wilkinson, a lovely lady of Georgetown, South Carolina. Her parents were from among those good people of Virginia who, from the earliest history of that great State, have transmitted through generations the graces and virtues of their own peculiar civilization. There is no single act of a man's life more important, or that must affect his future life for weal or for woe more decidedly, than the association of marriage. In this union of hopes and aspirations, this hazard of happiness, Mr. Memminger was certainly blessed. Life was now, to him, worth the living. With the sweet influences of his own home-altar ever with him, new aspirations and holier loves made the labors of the day lighter and the joys of the evening's shade sweeter than ever before.

His most important act as an alderman became permanently fixed in the great shopping street and thoroughfare of Charleston. The great fire of 1838 presented the opportunity, which he was quick to perceive, of widening King street. Accordingly he brought forward and had passed an ordinance condemning a few feet of the lots on either side of the street in the burnt district, which, when that part of the city was rebuilt, made King street, from Society, south, near ten feet wider than it had formerly been, thus adding not only to its appearance, but to the comfort of pedestrians and the convenience of the many vehicles that would in former days almost block this highway. He also drafted a

memorial to the Legislature praying the aid of the State to enable persons whose houses and stores had been destroyed to rebuild the same; which, through his active co-operation with his colleagues, assumed the form of an act of the Legislature known as the "Fire Loan," lending the credit of the State to the unfortunate victims of the fire on such very liberal terms as to enable them to restore the city in better form than before the disaster.

It was at this time that Mr. Memminger first began to study the public or "free" schools of Charleston and the State, to which in subsequent years he brought the energies of his mind in devising the system now so popular, and which, in this respect, meets so admirably the need of the people. In the year 1834, co-operating with Mr. W. J. Bennett, the noble son of his benefactor, Mr. Memminger undertook to reform the whole public school system of the State. Especially did he seek to elevate the standard and make more efficient the system in vogue at Charleston. With this object in view he traveled extensively, with Mr. Bennett as his companion, through the Northern and New England States studying their common-school systems, and gathering such practical information as to their administration as enabled him when he returned to devise, with Mr. Bennett, a plan which, with subsequent modifications and improvements, continues to this day an enduring monument to the honor and memory of these good men-a monument more imperishable than bronze or marble.

In no sense of the word was Mr. Memminger a selfish person. While the noble impulses of a generous nature warmed his soul, he was never guilty of that injudicious expression of this high trait of character which would lavish gifts and bestow favors without regard to the individual, or the results to follow upon his act. However well meant and however noble may be the impulse, it is, alas! for poor hu