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be mentioned Thomas Janney, lieutenant in Continental Line, 3rd Pa. Battalion, captured by British in 1776; Phineas Janney, the wine merchant of Alexandria and friend of Henry Clay; his nephew, Samuel M. Janney, the Quaker preacher and historian; John Janney34, who as president of the Virginia Convention, used his best endeavors to prevent his State from seceding from the Union, and as a delegate to the Whig Convention at Harrisburg advocated the nomination of Henry Clay for the Presidency; Charles Robert Leslie, R. A., the noted author and artist, and his talented sisters; Johns Hopkins, the founder of the University and Hospital bearing his name in Baltimore; Israel Gregg, captain of Fulton's first boat, the "Clermont," on the Ohio river; Emerson Hough, author and magazine writer; and Bellamy Storer, formerly Minister to Belgium, afterwards Minister to Spain, and now Ambassador to Austria-Hungary. Among those who married Janney descendants may be mentioned Joel Parker, War Governor of New Jersey, 1863-1866, who furnished Gov. Curtin several organized volunteer regiments that were used for the protection of Pennsylvania during Lee's invasion of that State in 1863;35 and Howard Pyle, artist and magazine writer.

To a lady who had tired her hearers by a lengthy discourse upon the antiquity and importance of her family, and showed no sign of changing the subject, Mr. John Janney is reported to have humorously said that her family could not compare with his in these respects, for the Janneys dated back to about 1500 B. C., and were of sufficient importance to be mentioned in the Bible, St. Paul stating that the Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses! [2 Timothy iii. 8].

SeeThe Drinker Family in America, p. 27; Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. IV, p. 652; Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Vol. VI, p. 136.

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RECONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS.

A NORTHERN MAN'S CRITICISMS OF A SENATOR DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE CIVIL WAR.

A Letter to SENATOR J. R. Doolittle from Judge David NOGGLE.

[The author of the subjoined letter was, at the date of its writing, a judge of one of the circuit courts of Wisconsin, next to the highest court of record in the State, the Supreme Court being the court of last resort. One of his brethren of the Wisconsin bar has said of him: "His lack of educational advantages and professional training did not embarrass him; the strong power of his will being adequate to overcome slight obstacles, and if his orthography was not always correct, it conformed to phonographic modes, and always had the advantage of idem sonans. He was a powerful and successful advocate before a jury, and by large experience and hard study he became a very good lawer."

The letter is thoroughly characteristic of its author. The views which he presents and the arguments which he adduces, were entertained by many another Northern man at the time indicated. There was then a wide-spread feeling of unrest and discontent in the North, as a result of the defeat at the first battle of Bull Run, at what was thought to be the too easy and conciliatory methods of the administration in dealing with the seceding South.

This letter was found among Mr. Doolittle's private papers. There is no note or memorandum to indicate that it was ever answered. -DUANE MOWRY, 204 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.]

Dear Judge:

NOGGLE TO DOOLITTLE.

Green Bay, May 30th, 1862.

Your letter answering my grumbling note (for such you evidently consider it) reached me at Kenosha. I was then under an engagement for this place to hold the Circuit Court here, Judge Wheeler having engaged to hold my June term in Janesville. I would not waste your time, or trouble you with a reply, were it not for the mistakes you are laboring under, as it seems to me.

You say "the men and all the men who criticise me would trample under their feet all the rights of States to legislate for themselves upon the relation of master and apprentice, master and slave, &c. It is only by military necessity that we can take slaves. They would cease to be States altogether if these men had their way."

Do you mean such men as Sumner, Willson, Harlan, Grimes, Howard and Trumbull? If you do, Judge, you are condemning a host of the genuine favorites of the people, and, in my opinion, the true friends of the country.

You say "the rebellion will be crushed out soon, or so nearly crushed as to be easily handled, and the tremendous effort to consolidate and concentrate all legislative power in this government will be an overshadowing danger."

But you can't believe for one moment that such is the design of Sumner, Trumbull or any other ultra-Republican? On the contrary, you know that such is the secret design of democrats, neutrals and conservatives.

Again, you say "as to the district bill, I was outrageously misrepresented by some of the press, and the cowardly manner in which it was done by some is simply contemptible. The truth is that my amend, so far from delaying the bill, saved the bill and carried it through. As to the question of colonization, it is the most practical idea to aid emancipation. I stand with the Republican party. I stand with the president. The men who denounce him are weakening his hands, and the result of it all is to unite back into power the Democratic party. Unless our people have sense enough to rally around him and sustain his policy, these croakers, who, next to the thieves, are doing most against the administration, who are natural fault-finders, have trained so long in the minority they do not know how to support a majority. The Republican party will be overthrown, and the Democratic party will come into power as matter of course. You

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