. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. denomination, has been a steady adhe-rent to the creed ; but he has been often heard to express his want ofconfidence in the integrity of parties, of whatever name. He does notbelieve that men who were born in the United States, and trained upto adult age in a familiarity with the institutions of the country, can tomuch extent differ in their interpretations of the state and federalconstitutions—and he does believe that most or all the party ma-chinery, of hired presses, caucuses,
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. denomination, has been a steady adhe-rent to the creed ; but he has been often heard to express his want ofconfidence in the integrity of parties, of whatever name. He does notbelieve that men who were born in the United States, and trained upto adult age in a familiarity with the institutions of the country, can tomuch extent differ in their interpretations of the state and federalconstitutions—and he does believe that most or all the party ma-chinery, of hired presses, caucuses, factitious platforms, issues andclique contrivances of whatever import, are little better than the de-vices of demagogues, to delude a credulous people into a practicalabuse of their rights of sufirage. Major Crawford has reared and educated three sons and threedaughters, all of whom give fair promise of usefulness and respecta-bility in the walks of future life. He has for many years past residedon his estate in South-western Georgia, and at the age of three-scoreand ten, continues to enjoy robust ^^z^S^ y^ ,c-^^^ HON. PETKR HITCHCOCK, OF OHIO. 183 HON. PETER HITCHCOCK, LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF OHIO.* The subject of this memoir was born in the town of Cheshire, iuthe county of New-Haven, and State of Connecticut, October 19,1781. Like other youth of New-England, he had the advantages of acommon school education, such as they were hear the close of thelast century ; and when of suitable age, turned his attention to classi-cal studies. At the age of seventeen years, he entered Yale College,as a member of the Sophomore class, and graduated in 1801. Thepecuniary circumstances of his father were limited, so much so, thatin order to acquire the means of defraying the expenses of an educa-tion, he was compelled to rely measurably upon his own this purpose he spent his vacations, and occasionally some por-tions of the college terms, in teaching school. In conseq
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