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passed out of the respective administrations of this government, since Washington's first term, in 1789, they will gather nothing to discourage them. I do not think as much as can be said of the queens of foreign dynasties before the reign of Queen Victoria, and I am proudly sure that the fact is at least as strong in regard to all our American Presidents. Since the First English George no other European power has presented so marvellous a succession of good rulers as the United States; and, I may add, not all the dynasties since Alfred, have shown so much integrity and capacity. Generals Hancock and Garfield may also think of this with satisfaction.

HON. W. H. ENGLISH,

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.

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the cemetery of the thriving but rather quiet

town of Carrollton, the county seat of Greene County, Ill., there is, or was some years ago, an humble monument standing by two graves, bearing the following inscriptions:

In memory of Elisha English, born March 2, 1768, near Laurel, Sussex County, Del. Married Sarah Wharton, Dec. 10, 1788. Removed to Kentucky in 1790, and to Greene County, Illinois, in 1830. Died at Louisville, Ky., March 7, 1857. He was a faithful husband, a kind father, and an honest man.

In memory of Sarah Wharton, wife of Elisha English. Died November 27, 1849, in the eighty-second year of her age. She was kind to her neighbors, devoted to her family, and a noble woman in all the relations of life.

My father and my mother. They lived lovingly together as husband and wife over sixty years, and, before the tie was broken, could number 200 living descendants. Their fourteen children all married and had children before a death occurred in the family. This monument is erected to their memory by Elisha G. English, of Indiana.

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