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the institution, and, afterward resuming his chair, retained it till his death. In 1855 President Pierce tendered him a seat on the bench of the court of claims, which he declined, as he did also the chancellorship of the University of Georgia, to which he was elected in 1860. He was an advo- cate of the cause of temperance, and for many years a trustee of the State university. He held a high place as a judge and as an advocate at the bar in criminal cases, and his appeals to the sympathy of jurors have been rarely equalled. He was one "of the compilers of the penal code of Georgia in 1833.— Wilson's son, Jolm Henry, jurist, b. in Oglethorpe county, Ga., 13 June, 1812; d. in Rome, Ga., 6 June, 1860, was educated at Franklin and Yale colleges, studied law, was ad- mitted to the bar in March, 1834, and began prac- tice at Rome, Ga. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1835, and was solicitor- general of the Cherokee circuit in 1838. He was elected to congress, serving by successive elections from 4 Dec, 1843, till 3 March, 1849, and from 3 Dec, 1855, till 3 March, 1857, and was for several years a judge of the state supreme court.

LUNA Y ARELLANO, Tristan de (loo'-nah), Spanish explorer, b. in Borobia, Aragon, in 1519 ; d. in Yucatan in 1571. He came about 1550 to Mexico, and in 1559 was appointed by the viceroy, Luis de Velasco, commander of a fleet of thirteen ships, which he sent to conquer and colonize Florida. His landing force consisted of about 1,500 infantry and nearly 200 cavalry, and with some Dominican friars, among them Domingo de la Anunciacion, Pedro de Feria, and Domingo de Salazar, he sailed from Vera Cruz in July, 1559. The fleet arrived on 15 Aug. in a bay which, by a former explore!*, Guido de Labezares {q. v.). had been called Pilipina, but was named, by Luna, Santa Maria, on account of his arrival on the feast of the Virgin. On 21 Aug. a violent hurricane destroyed all the vessels at anchor except one, which was driven ashore by the waves. Notwithstanding this mishap, Luna began the exploration of the interior and reached Ninicapua, a large abandoned Indian town, which he named Santa Cruz. In 1560 he discovered the river Olibahali, and a province called Coza by the natives : but the difficulties of the territory, the hostility of the Indians, and the want of provisions impelled many of the adven- turers to return to the coast, whence they went to Cuba to ask for help. Others, under the leader- ship of Juan Ceron, rose in a mutiny, which Luna had much trouble to quell. In 1561 re-enforce- ments from Cuba arrived, and explorations were continued as far as the point of Santa E^lena ; but, seeing that success was doubtful, some of the captains called a council of war and returned to Cuba. Luna, with some faithful followers, con- tinued his explorations till in December, 1562, he was recalled by the viceroy to Mexico. In 1563 he was appointed governor of the province of Yucatan, which place he held till his death.

LUNDY, Benjamin, philanthropist, b. in Hard- wick, Warren co., N. J., 4 Jan., 1789 : d. in Lowell, La Salle co., Ill., 22 Aug.. 1839. His parents were membei's of the Society of Friends. When he was about nineteen years of age he removed to Wheel- ing, Va., where he remained for four years, work- ing the first eighteen months as an apprentice to a saddler. While there his attention was first di- rected to the evils of slavery, and determined his future course as an Abolitionist. On leaving Wheel- ing he went to Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and then to St. Clairsville in that state, where, in 1815, he origi- nated an anti - slavery association, called the " Union humane society," and wrote an appeal on the subject of slavery. Soon afterward he became a contributor of anti-slavery articles to the "Phi- lanthropist " newspaper, published at Mt. Pleas- ant. In the autumn of 1819 he removed to St. Louis, Mo., at the time that the Mis- souri question was .,?^ -^y attracting universal attention, and de- voted himself to an exposition of the evils of slavery in the newspapers of that state and Illinois. Returning to Mt. Pleasant, he began in January, 1812, the publication of the " Genius of Univer- sal Emancipation," a monthly, the office of which was soon re- moved to Jonesbor-

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thence to Baltimore in 1824, when it became a week- ly. In the latter part of 1825 Mr. Lundy visited Hayti to make arrangements with the government of that island for the settlement of such freed slaves as might be sent thither. In 1828 he visited the eastern states, where he lectured and formed the acquaintance of William Lloyd Garrison, with whom he afterward became associated in editing his journal. In the winter of 1828-'9 he was as- saulted for an alleged libel and nearly killed in Baltimore by a slave-dealer named Austin Wool- folk. Lundy was indirectly censured by the court and compelled to remove his paper to Washington, and finally to Philadelphia, where he gave it the name of " The National Inquirer," and finally i; merged into " The Pennsylvania Freeman." In 1829 he went a second time to Hayti, and took with him several slaves that had been emancipated for that purpose. In the winter of 1830 he visited the Wilberforce colony of fugitive slaves in Canada, and then went to Texas to provide a similar asylum under the Mexican flag, renewing his ^^sit in 1833, but was baffled by the events that led to the an- nexation of Texas. In 1838 his property was burned by the pro-slavery mob that fired Pennsyl- vania Hall, Philadelphia. In the winter of 1838-'9 he removed to Lowell, La Salle co.. 111., with the intention of publishing the " Genius " there, but his design was frustrated by his death. He was the first to establish anti-slavery periodicals and to deliver anti-slavery lectures, and probably the first to induce the formation of societies for the encouragement of the produce of free labor. See " The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy." by Thomas Earl (Philadelphia, 1847).

LUNDY, John Patterson, clergyman, b. in Danville, Pa., 3 Feb., 1823 : d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 12 Dec, 1892. He was graduated at Princeton in 1846, and after pursuing the theological course in the seminary was ordained 13 Feb., 1849. Two years later, after holding a pastorate at Sing Sing, N. Y., he entered the Protestant Episcopal church, was ordained deacon, in St. Paul's church. Sing Sing, N. Y., 25 Oct., 1854, bv Bishop Upfold, and priest, in All Saints' church, Philadelphia, 28 Oct., 1855, by Bishop Alonzo Potter. During his diaconate he was in charge of Briar Cliff chapel, and was also chaplain of the state-prison in Sing Sing. In 1855 he became rector of All Saints' church, Philadelphia, and two years later of Emmanuel