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Windsor Sat. 11th Nov. 1837. -

Sometime I am apt to come to an opinion without
assistance from others, often others' assistance. Be the
matter as it may, I agree with others when I think
them right without the pride of original opinion
to myself. This thought is not well expressed: however
I will go on. A transaction has lately taken place
in Edenton equal in enormity to the lawless
Vicksburg. As this affair will probably undergo a
judicial investigation, and as I know nothing of
certainty, indeed merely nothing, I suspend my thoug
hts for the present

12th Sunday to Day Monday 13th

Death in to last throes I witnessed last night
I felt a peculiar solemnity arising out of the
sympathy for the poor dying. I thought, as he
is now so I must be. -

Tuesday 14th; Weather very gool - Yesterday
did nothing but go in the Court before noon
and noticed a few Court matters: In the after
noon, went to the funeral of Wm Blanchard Esq'r.
At night amused myself with a few of my frien
ds at an oyster party and so forth. -

To day before noon rode out of town two miles
to in procession to attend the burying of poor
Blanchard and his Masonic honors. Came back
to town and time has past away without any
interest to me. I have no business to stimulate
me to work, yet necessity urges me to work.
These court days present varety of scenes. All
sorts of people and all sorts of matters afford
a study to the observer of such things. I have
no ecstacy of enjoyment - no splendid bursts of
thought: nothing indeed but a still philosophy
that refuses to judge now. -