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This gentleman, who ranks among the most sigo- E9us ahd spirited of the American popts, is Rative qf havesAil, a town on the baaks 0f the MeIrimack River, ln Massachusetts, where he born In le0e His ancestors were Quakefs, and having suffered under the noerant spirit of the early settlers the poet has, in severs of bis works, depicted the inus tlee and hgotoEy of tnoae Who, in the name of Re- NgieFs rs5pstfAfed inc most shameful crimes ngninst ChtistisH charity and civil liberty. h lS36. Mir. Whittier conducted tho -Amefiean MaaufaetaeF," !" . weekly paper established h Boston. In id3D. he took ehaFke of the ..New England Review" pub hsied in Hartford. Conn Through these and his sLegeHds of New England. and his poem oft Mogg Malone" Sse., Mr. V. early enjoyed an honorable standing and siftaous reputation among his couniy men, which his efforts in succeeding years have tended greatly o exalt and ehlsFge He is at pres .ent se believe, conducting an anli-sIavesy paper in Boston; cf the moderate school, however. and hay jag connection with those who are guided by the spirit of fantaicism and disunicn. But iu lhis place, have nothing 10 do with the peculiar views of Mir. Whittier on the subject alludedto. We here know hlIh only ss gifted poet. whose productions breathe throughout manly and benevolent spilit, and are sustained by purity of thought and dietion which can be claimed for but few of his eontempo- gartes. The first of the selections which accompany these Femafks, being an Address to New England, 1" will estabssh inc warmth oT his patriotism, and we sure that his '.Frcst Spirit will bring with it itsomethiug to cheer and enlven the hearts of our reader.