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CHAPTER XXX.

Poor Charles Leupp, who died sn.dlen;; / t long
ago, belonged to the hide and leather merchants, wlio.'se
sphere of actiem is called "The Swamp." Alluehng
upon one occasion to the great men from that locality —
such as Jaeob Lorillard, Abraham Bloodgood, Israel
Corse, David Bryson, Gideon Lee, Peter McCartee,
William Kumbel, Abraham Polhemus, Richard Cnn-
ninghain, Hugh McCormick, Shepherd Knapp, Thomas
Everett, Jonathan Thorne, the Brookses, James George
and Thomas, Peter Bonnett, Henr}' Orttery, Daniel
Tooker, and other lights, the lamented Charles — (who
was also a great leather merchant, and had been at one
time a partner and son-in-laAv, of Gideon Lee and Shep¬
herd Knapp) said:

" The Roman mother Cornelia, when asked to display
lie-r jewels, pointed to her sems. So can we, to these
(leather and hide) fathers and claim them as ours. Let
us cherish their example, and emulate their noble quali¬
ties, so that hereafter our successor? may, in like manner,
be not ashamed of any of us, but exclaim :

'* He. too, was a Swamper '. "                          .