akespere Hall in the evening. Rochester was
reached on the eighth, where the tenth lecture was delivered to an
appreciative audience in Corinthian Hall--the introduction being made by
Colonel Reynolds. The Rochester _Democrat_ noticed the lecture in the
following paragraph:

"A very large audience assembled at Corinthian Hall last evening to
listen to Captain Willard Glazier's lecture on 'Echoes from the
Revolution.' The lecture was a very interesting one, and the
audience were agreeably entertained. Captain Glazier proposes to go
to Batavia, and from thence to Buffalo. He is meeting with deserved
success in his journey on horseback from ocean to ocean, which
increases as he becomes better known."

It may here be remarked that during Captain Glazier's stay in Rochester,
an exception was made to the usually courteous reception given him by
the local press. One of the papers threw doubts on the genuineness of
his credentials and the rectitude of his motives. This, however, had
little effect on him. He was conscious of his own integrity of purpose,
and of being guided by a desire to do good while seeking knowledge and
recreation in his own way, and the only notice we find of the
circumstance in his Journal is in a few words under date of June
eleventh: "Was pleased with an article in the _Express_, contradicting
falsehoods in the _Union_."

The following is the article referred to:

"On Friday our evening contemporary took occasion to treat Captain
Willard Glazier, who lectured in Corinthian Hall the night previous,
with a degree of contempt and misrepresentation suggestive of
Confederate sympathies on the part of the writer. As to the methods
of Captain Glazier's business we have nothing to do. As a man and a
soldier, he is above reproach. We have examined the original
documentary testimonials to his military character, and no man could
be better endorsed. That he has devoted himself since the war to
illustrate the war of the rebellion in books and upon the rostrum is
to his credit, and certainly to the benefit of the people whose
patriotism he keeps alive by his appeals with pen and tongue. Doubt
was cast upon his services on account of his youth. But the fact
stands that Willard Glazier was a captain of cavalry at the age of
eighteen, certainly a higher record than that of a stay-at-home
Copperhead. He performed his duty,