"To be unacquainted with the events which have taken place before you were born, is to continue to live in childish ignorance; for where is the value of human life, unless memory enables us to compare the events of our own times with those of ages long gone by."-Cicero. HARVARD [ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by WILLIAM GOODMAN, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.] Stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill, |