174, 205, and 245.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid._, vol.xi., pp.

140 and 268.] [Footnote 3: Goodell, _Slave Code_, pp.

323-324.] [Footnote 4: _The Enormity of the Slave Trade, etc_., p.

74.] Some of the objects of such charity turned out to be interesting characters.

Samuel Lowry of Tennessee worked and studied privately under Rev.Mr.Talbot of Franklin College, and at the age of sixteen was sufficiently advanced to teach with success.