CT 1902. PREFACE. I HOPE in offering these sketches to the public that the suggestive nature of the subject itself, and the deep and earnest feeling it is calculated to excite, may awaken in other minds a desire, not only to trace out yet further these precious records of the past; but so to observe, as to bring into greater prominence that maternal influence which has helped to form the characters of the great men of the present day. 1022184 |