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Excerpt from Biography of Rev. Robert Finley, D. D. Of Basking Ridge, N. J: Second Edition, Enlarged, With an Account of His Agency as the Author of the American Colonization Society; Also a Sketch of the Slave Trade
AN intelligent gentleman, in the congregation of Basking Ridge, many years ago, while contemplating his beloved pas tor, in the midst of his ministerial labors and successes, made the following declaration Were I ambitious, I would rather be Robert Finley than Caesar or Bonaparte.
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