The villagers assented to my proposal, and the State Legislature ratified their act by ordering that name to be placed on the maps of Connecticut.

In this chapter, as in the previous one, I shall give my recollections only of those who have ended their career of service, and entered into their reward.
During the six years that I spent in Princeton College and in the Seminary (between 1838 and 1846) I came into close acquaintance with, and I heard very often, the two great orators of the Alexander family.
Dr.Archibald Alexander, the father of a famous group of sons, was a native of Virginia--had listened to Patrick Henry in his youth; had married the daughter of the eloquent "Blind Preacher," Rev.James Waddell, and even when as a young minister he had preached in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Daniel Webster, then a student in Dartmouth College, predicted his future eminence.

The students in the Seminary were wont to call him playfully, "The Pope," for we had unbounded confidence in his sanctified common-sense.

I always went to him for counsel.