Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . be exercised is for retaliation and compulsion, andburdens on navigation are imposed that come from no motive of po-lice. Your committee have witnessed, with much concern, the differencebetween these states on these subjects. The quiet union of the Ameri-can states should strike every lover of mankind as a desideratum un-surpassed by any subject of sublunary concern ; and so it is felt by thepeople of Kentucky. Judge Pirtle unites, to his legal attainments, general information,which
Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . be exercised is for retaliation and compulsion, andburdens on navigation are imposed that come from no motive of po-lice. Your committee have witnessed, with much concern, the differencebetween these states on these subjects. The quiet union of the Ameri-can states should strike every lover of mankind as a desideratum un-surpassed by any subject of sublunary concern ; and so it is felt by thepeople of Kentucky. Judge Pirtle unites, to his legal attainments, general information,which belongs only to the most industrious and cultivated in his pro-fession. His habits of investigation have led to a very thoroughacquaintance with natural science ; and that refined element in hischaracter to which we have before alluded, causes him to take greatdelight in all that is beautiful in literature and art. He has a livelyinterest in most of the scientific and philanthropic movements of theday. Indeed, those eloquent lines of Terence might be his own : Ho-mo sum ; et nihil humani a me alienum -^SijS S S:^- ?u :: c r IT. .r-. .Lr r -u f. ^- x ;? nr^, \r .fj^ T-.: ?-^^-v•x<. .j-c i^;?:,, ^•iit£a; -ij^JMtrj ARCHIBALD DIXON, OF KENTUCKY. 737 HON. ARCHIBALD DIXON, OF KENTUCKY. To write the biography of a living man is a task of difficulty and deli-cacy. To speak well of him would be deemed adulation by his ene-mies ; and to speak ill of him, no better than murder by his the following we shall endeavor to speak the truth, yet we will notdeny that our prepossessions are in favor of our subject; and must can-didly admit that if we had esteemed it our duty to condemn more thanto praise, we should have left the work to other hands. As it is brief,it may not be tedious; and as it is the life of one whose name has notyet been associated with national affairs, it may excite curiosity. Archibald Dixon, of Kentucky, was bom on the 2d of April, 1802,in
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