ved
him also in some especial difficulties. He had on several occasions
allowed his name to be used as security for friends in difficulty. Two
or three of these debts remained unpaid and the responsibility came
upon him. One especially, of an unusually large amount, involved him
in embarrassment which led him to determine on the sale of his
plantation. A neighbor and intimate friend, Mr. Dennis, was desirous
to purchase, and very sorrowfully Thomas King Carroll came to the
resolution to give up his ancestral home. As he was accustomed to say,
he loved every corner and every stone upon the place, but the burden
had become too great for his declining strength.

The sale was effected and Mr. Carroll removed to Dorchester county,
on the eastern side of the Chesapeake, with his unmarried children,
and here he died, in 1873, in his 80th year.

Governor Carroll is described in the annals of the State as "one of
the best men Maryland has ever produced," a man of _character
unsullied_ and of lofty integrity.

At the breaking out of the civil war Mr. Carroll was already an
elderly man. At first his sympathies were with his own section, but
after the attack on Fort Sumter they were steadily enlisted for the
National cause, though he foresaw that its triumph would lead to the
destruction of his own fortunes and those of his children.

Most of the slaves had been left on the plantation, but some had
always been considered the especial property of each of his children.

Thus Anna Ella Carroll had her own group. At the very outset of the
war she fully realized that slavery was at the root of the rebellion,
and she at once liberated her own slaves and devoted her time, her
pen, and all her resources to the maintenance of the National cause.
She immediately commenced a series of writings of such marked ability
that they speedily attracted the attention of Mr. Lincoln and the
Administration. Governor Hicks, too, placed in a situation of unusual
difficulty, turned to his able friend for consultation and for moral
and literary support.

Jefferson Davis, who was aware of Miss Carroll's great literary and
social influence, wrote to her early in the secession movement
adjuring her to induce her father to take sides with the South.

"I will give him any position he asks for," wrote Mr. Davis.

"Not if you will give him the whole South," replied Miss Carroll.

A visitor to her in 1861 says: "Her room was lined with military maps,
her