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brook the coerced silence imposed in this reign of terror . He became otmoxious , to the partizans of the ruling powers , and was threatened with personal injury . His place of worship was at one time attacked while he was engaged in the pulpit , but his coolness and energy prevented the commission of auy act of
serious violence . On another occasion , a tumultuous assemblage surrounded his house , determined to drag him forth : he was absent at the moment , but being informed of the state of alarm into which his household was thrown ,, he hastened homeward , and , disregarding the solicitations of his friends , rode fearlessly into the midst of the riotous multitude . Awed
into silence by the intrepid energy of his manner , the Vude rabble listened to his calm , but forcible vindication of himself , and at length , forgetting the rage into which they had been hurried , they quietly dispersed , blessing the man whom they came with intent to destroy Various reasons concurred to induce
Mr . Toulmin to emigrate with his family to America , which he did in the year 1793 . He had some time before married Ann , daughter of Mr . Laurence Tremlett , of Totness , in the county of Devon , by whom he had several children , of whose number two died soon after their arrival
in America . His first settled transatlantic residence was at Lexington , Kentucky , where he occasionally officiated as minister ; but gave his principal attention , as became a settler , to agricultural pursuits , employing his leisure hours in tlie study of law and medicine . His proficiency in both these pursuits was considerable . The latter he ever continued
benevolently and successfully to exercise in his neighbourhood ; the former was , it may be presumed , early known and properly appreciated , for he was offered the situation of Secretary to the State and Government of Kentucky . In this office Mr . Toulmin continued till the removal
of the Governor , when he again changed his residence , transporting his family to the Mississippi Territory , near the Alabama State . Here he extended , with successful results , his agricultural speculations , and was shortly after honoured with the office of Judge of his District , which he held for many years , discharging its laborious duties with credit to himself and benefit
to the community . His qualifications for this high office were evinced by Ms undertaking ,, at the desire of the Government , to revise and digest the laws of the Mississippi Territory * This important taalt he accomplished , much to the satisfaction of his employers , and his abridgments were published , in a cheap and accessible form , * for general information . About
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the year 1813 , Mr . Toulmin lost his wife > and , after the lapse of some time , took for his second , a lady who had emigrated from England at -the same time with himself . This uateon was productive of the greatest happiness , both to himself and to thexhUdi'en '' d ^ tb 6 ' fdrmer ; ' Si ' arrlage . He now enjoyed to a great degree
that kind of happiness which is most desirable to an active and virtuous mind . An extensive cultivator of land ; the holder of a public function of high importance ; and the head of a numerous family of children and dependents , his establishment was almost patriarchal - He had become , in his political
principles , thoroughly American ; and his letters to his friends in this country breathe strongly the spirit of republican independence , and abound in expressions of continued satisfaction at his emancipation from the thraldom of European governments , and of admiration of the excellent qualifications of the public institutions
of his adopted country . Nor was this high estimate materially affected by his own removal frora office , which was neither called for by any demerit , nor handsomely effected . On this topic he writes thus in the year 1821 : " Of this , [ the very moderate remuneration for his public duties , *] I am ail at once deprived ;
and this rather unexpectedly ; for I did think that long , faithful and arduous services gave me a title to a re-appointment ; [ the office having ceased by law , on the conversion of the Mississippi Territory into a State ;] but it was no such thing . All offices in the new State in the gift of the federal Government , were
distributed among the partizans of the Secretary of the Treasurer , fsimilar to the English Chancellor of the Exchequer , ) who aims to be President , a few years hence . But I was not of that class . * * * # # Remember that intrigue , that ambition , that sycophancy , that
corruption , prevail in republics as well as in monarchies , for both' are governed by man ; arid the main difference is , that in republics , these passions and the men who are governed by them , can be checked and controuled by the people ; and often W nA ^* ^ h k * 7 s .
_ ^ ' are so : Mr . Toulmin was not without his share of domestic afflictions ; some years before the death of his first wife , he suffered heavily from the loss of hi » eldest daughter , an amiable and excellent young woman , who was married to Colonel ( now General ) Gaihes ; but the heaviest trial seems to have been the loss of his sou
Joshua , a fine and interesting youth , whose progress in every useful branch of stutly , and the excellent qualities of whose mind and heart , endeared him to all wh »
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180 Obituary . — -The HmoyrabU Hdfry Toulmin
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/52/
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