The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . v^£*; -^/t-Lt^ 236 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA. came president, and the college, under his enlight-ened management, achieved a degree of prosperitynever previously known. In 1840 the
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . v^£*; -^/t-Lt^ 236 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA. came president, and the college, under his enlight-ened management, achieved a degree of prosperitynever previously known. In 1840 the number ofstudents in attendance was 140. The time was oneof great political activity, and his Lectures on theRestrictive System, depicting the evils of the tariffsystem, were very popular, notonly with liis students, but withthe Southern public, and arethought to have had much weightin shaping the opposition to thetariff laws of 1828 and 1832. Hisessay in favor of slavery had amarked effect, it is said, on theslavery question. But his great-est work was his Digest of theLaws, Customs, Manners, and In-stitutions of Ancient and ModernNations, embracing lectures de-livered to his class. Dr. HerbertB. Adams pronounces this workthe most, thorough and compre-hensive c ourse on history of whichhe has found any record duringthis earlj period. Dr. Dew con-tributed largely to the South-ern Review. In 1845 he marriedNatilia Hay, daughter of Dr. Hayof Clarke count
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