And such the man who founded and enjoyed it sixty years ago

And such the man who founded and enjoyed it sixty years ago

And such the man who founded and enjoyed it sixty years ago

Such was the estate, and such the man who founded and enjoyed it sixty years ago; and many an equal estate, founded and occupied by equally valuable men, then existed, and still exist in all our older states; and if our private and public virtues are preserved, will ever exist in every state of our union. Such pictures, too, are forcible illustrations of the morals of correct building on the ample estates of many of our American planters and farmers. The mansion house, which is so graphically described, we saw but a short time before it was pulled down - then old, and hardly worth repairing, being built of wood, and of style something like this design of our own, bating the extent of veranda.