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Excerpt from Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
Boston at that time was renowned for the high tone of its society, for elegance of manners, a refined taste in literature, and a noble and generous hospitality. Notwithstanding the ultra Federalism which pervaded its politi al atmosphere, there was no city of the North in which the Southerner was more warmly welcomed. In Boston, Mr. Tayloe formed, during his university days, friendships which terminated only with his life; and which neither sectional hatred nor the horrors of a civil war could disturb.
The na 'a.l engagement between the Chesapeake and Shannon occurred while Mr. Tayloe was a student at Cambridge, and he preserved in his note-book the following reminiscence of captain lawrence, OF the chesapeake.
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