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 give me pleasure, if this page should bear my grateful remembrances.

I saw a fine apple-tree, full of fruit, evidently planted, as are many other choice trees, by the hand of nature.

14th.—"Aristocrats," says my friend Mr. Elliott, "are breeding fast in America: no men in the world are more aristocratical than the heads of departments; they spurn, and cannot even speak to, common men, unless it be to purchase popularity cheaply. Four ranks variegate this demoralizing country, (i. e.) the heads of departments, clerks in office, merchants and traders, and the lower orders. The third named are considered much below the first, yet above the second, and are therefore treated with more respect than the clerks under government, who are mere slaves, dependent and removable at pleasure without explanation. {154} There are already nobility in existence in the Cincinnati society and military schools."

"Our great orator, Randolph, is an orator of nature," says Mr. Jones, "and half an Indian. He was once sneered at in the house on account of his pedigree. He smartly replied, and boasted of being descended, by his mother's side, from an Indian princess and a Mr. Smith, an English gentleman, an early settler in Virginia, who was taken prisoner by the Indians, and about to be offered up a sacrifice to their gods; but at the moment when the fatal tomahawk was raised to destroy him, this princess stepped forward and prevented the dreadful blow. He immediately married his preserver."[34]