. Historic towns of the Southern States. earsChief Justice ofthe UnitedStates. Fortwenty-one yearshe lived there,and returned, hislong life, full ofwork and ofhonors, over, tosleep beside hismother in the lit-tle burial-placeof the Jesuits at the Novitiate. May a brief pause be made in this hastychronicle to look at the great Roman Catholicfoundations of Frederick which lend such anunusual aspect to the part of the town in whichthey stand. The long, dull facade of the Noviti-ate fronts the school and the beautiful church,. CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER E. TANEY. Frederick Town 93 and next that the great
. Historic towns of the Southern States. earsChief Justice ofthe UnitedStates. Fortwenty-one yearshe lived there,and returned, hislong life, full ofwork and ofhonors, over, tosleep beside hismother in the lit-tle burial-placeof the Jesuits at the Novitiate. May a brief pause be made in this hastychronicle to look at the great Roman Catholicfoundations of Frederick which lend such anunusual aspect to the part of the town in whichthey stand. The long, dull facade of the Noviti-ate fronts the school and the beautiful church,. CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER E. TANEY. Frederick Town 93 and next that the great walls of the conventarise, shutting out the world from the still,cloistered life within. Many men eminent in theorder have been part of the place—none ofthem more interesting, perhaps, than FatherJohn Du Bois, who came thither in 1792. Hewas an emigre of the French Revolution, inwhich his old classmates at the Colleo-e ofLouis-le-Grand, Camille Desmoulins andRobespierre, figured so largely, and he after-wards wore a mitre. In 1824, Lafayette included Frederick in hisgreat tour of rejoicing, and was accorded theusual welcoming parades, speeches, dinner andball. Only a few years ago a beautiful, blindold lady, who had been a beautiful, bright-eyedyoung wife, used to tell of her noble guest. Shewas a favorite granddaughter of Governor John-son, and in her girlhood had helped LouisaJohnson, the wife of John Ouincy Adams, todispense the unpretentious hospitality of theWhite House. Mr. Adams, she said, got upand built
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