These lines were written in the excitement which prevailed during the session of the last Congress, when the Nullifiers were fulminating their doctrines of disunion and prophesying the downfall of the Republic, when he, who has not yet lost all his original brightness, was acting a part which Milton has described. This may account for what now may be deemed harshness. NOTE IX. _"I recollect it well, and loved the time, When we were wont to meet: when last we met I parted from you for this western clime, With the deep feeling never to forget. In the quick bustle of the busy throng, I feel that I shall miss ye, O! how long! The generous hearts who mann'd my spirit on-- Who sooth'd me when I lost and cheer'd me when I won."_ I have both rhyme and reason for remembering my young friends of Baltimore. More frank, fearless, and generous spirits, it has not been my lot to meet: social companions, firm friends, and with highly cultivated minds, they possess an _esprit du corps_ which gives such qualities their strongest attractions. They have made Baltimore to me the "city of the soul." NOTE X. _"Making of human rights the merest mock."_ The fiend's arch mock. SHAKSPEARE. ERRATA. In Stanza 69, 7th line, read _To_ for _No_. * * * * * Transcriber Notes Table of Contents added. Typographical inconsistencies have been changed and are listed below. The original text has also had its errata incorporated. Archaic and variable spelling and hyphenation is preserved. Author's punctuation style is preserved, except where noted. Passages in italics indicated by _underscores_. Passages in bold indicated by =equal signs=. Transcriber Changes The following changes were made to the original text: Page 17: Added missing footnote tag (Here Death has given many a horrid =wound![5]=) Page 20: Was 'foreget' (There is no lethean power can teach me to =forget=.) Page 30: Stanza number was 'XLIV' (=LXIV=. Say, how shall he regain it, when 'twas giv'n) Page 38: Was 'protentous' (And no =portentous=, fearful meteor, there, should blaze, and blacken, and create dismay) Page 43: Changed period to comma (When he was thirteen years old, his father removed thence to the South =Yadkin,= North Carolina;) Page 43: Added beginning quote (="No= historical facts are better attested, than those, to which allusion is here made.) Page 44: Added beginning quote (="Supposing= them to be artificial, we are led into a vast field of conjecture.) Page 44: Added beginning quote (="Viewing= them as artificial, nothing can be more curious;) Page 44: Added beginning quote (="If= we suppose them to be natural, which, in my opinion, is the most rational belief)