"All human beings not utterly savage long for some information about past times."--Lord Macauley.

"It is wise for us to recur to the history of our ancestors. Those who are regardless of their ancestors . . . do not perform their duty to the world."--Daniel Webster's speech, Dec. 22, 1845.

"Reverence for parents is essential to a sound moral character." It follows that those who are indifferent and careless in this respect must lack some at least of the elements of a sound moral character. They are gone. As time passes on it is natural that we will more and more cherish their memory. I have labored to rescue from oblivion the names of those who have gone before us, and to place land marks where they resided: that those of us who now live, and those who come after us, may answer to the question: "Who was your father."

Daniel Webster (He needs no titles of honor to mark his rank, for he was the embodiment of all that was great in man.) said: "It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts, our sympathies and our happiness with what is distant in place or time, and looking before and after to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity. There is also a moral and philosophical respect of our ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling. I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligations on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of our alliance with excellence which is departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts it may be actively operating on the happiness of those that come after it."

Genealogical research in this country is quite different from that in England. There it is to connect one's self with distinguished families, or to ascertain one's right to title or estate. Here it can only be to connect themselves with the earliest, the best, the purest days of New England. Such studies must have good moral effect. We are carried back to a consideration of the high aims, pure mother's severe trials, and exhausting labors, and the noble character of the fathers of our commonwealth. We are lead to a more just appreciation of our present privileges, and of those free institutions which cost so much sacrifice and suffering. Those men were not perfect, but