The three other letters do not merit serious attention (2 Mace, xi, 16-33). See AVernsdorflF, Be fid. Libr. Mac- cab, sec. Ixvi ; (irimm, Exeg. Handbuch, ad loc. ; and on the other side, Patritius, Be Cons. Mace. p. 142, 280. — Kitto, s. v.
Manly, Basil, D.D., a Baptist divine and educator of note, was born in Chatham County, N. C, Jan. 28, 1798. At the age of sixteen he became a member of a Baptist Church, and not long after began speaking in public, though he was not regularly licensed till 1818. He preached his first sermon in I3eaufort, S. C, and must have made a favorable impression, for he at once received an offer of aid from a society for the education of ministers, and commenced his studies. In December, 1819, he entered the junior class in South Carolina Col- lege, and graduated with the highest honor in 1821. He immediately entered into an engagement to preach in the Edgefield District, and was ordained in March, 1822. A Church M-as formed at Edgefield Court-house about a year later, of which he was pastor for three A-ears, gaining a wide reputation as a preacher in upper South Carolina. He was called in 1826 to the pastorate of the Baptist Church in Charleston, and continued there eleven years, during which time he not only sustained and extended his reputation as a preacher, but was active in the cause of liberal and theological education, effect- ing the establishment of what is now known as Furman University, at Greenville, S. C. At that period theo- logical instruction was included in the plans of this and similar institutions. Dr. Jlanly lived to see the Bap- tists of the South concentrate their energies upon the establishment and support of a single theological semi- nary. He took a lively interest in this matter, partly, no doubt, from a sense of the disadvantages under which he had himself labored ; for, though a good scholar, he was a self-educated theologian. He was chosen in 1837 to the presidency of the University of Alabama, and ad- ministered the office for about eighteen years with emi- nent ability and success. In 1 855 he returned to Charles- ton, and to the pastoral ofhce over one of the four churches that now existed in place of the one to which he had formerly ministered. He was subsequently en- gaged as a missionary and evangelist in Alabama, and as a pastor at Montgomery. He died at Greenville, S. C, Dec. 21, 1868. As a preacher, Dr. Manly was emi- nently popular. His discourses, though instructive and convincing, were also charged with the elements of emotional power, and, with all his success as an educa- tor, this was the work in which he most delighted. Dr. Manly wrote a "treatise on jNIoral Science," which was for vears a text-book in Southern colleges. It indicated
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a high order of talent. See Xew Ame?\ Ci/chp. 1868, p. 450 ; Drake, iJict. A mer. Biog. s. v. (L. E. S.)
Mann, Cyrus, an American Congregational min- ister and author, was born at Oxford, N. H., April 3, 1785; was educated at Dartmouth College (class of 1806) ; was principal of Gilmanton Academy two years ; teacher of the Troy high-school one year ; tutor at Dart- mouth College from 1809 to 1814 ; pastor of the Church at Westminster, Mass., from 1815 to 1841 ; then of Rob- inson Church, Plymouth, three years; next a teacher at Lowell several years; finally, from 1852 to 1856 act- ing pastor of the North Falmouth Church. He died at Stoughton, Mass., Feb. 9, 1859. Mr, Mann published An Ejntome of the Evidences of Christianity : — History of the Temperance Reformation: — Memoir of Mrs. Myru W. A lien ; and some Sermons. — Drake, Did. of A mer. Biog. p. 595.
Mann, Horace, LL.D., one of the most prominent educators in our country, a philanthropist whose name deserves to be honored by every American — " a soul whose life was a galvanic thrill along the muscles of our age" — was born, of very humble parentage, at Frank- lin, Mass., May 4, 1796. Though not privileged with the advantages of a careful training in his early boy- hood, he yet managed to acquire a pretty good knowl- edge of the so-called " common branches." At the age of twenty he resolved to secure for himself the advan- tages of a collegiate training. His instructors hitherto, he tells us himself, he had found to be " verj' good peo- ple, but very poor teachers." He had lost his father when only thirteen years old, and since that time " aU the family," he tells us, " labored together for the com- mon support, and toil was considered honorable, al- though it was sometimes of necessity excessive." Not- withstanding all these disadvantages, Horace was bent upon a course of study in college. Within the short space of six months he had acquired a sufficient prepa- ration to enter the sophomore year at Brown Universi- ty, and at this institution he graduated, with the high- est honors, in 1819. The subject of his graduating speech was "The Progressive Character of the Human Kace." This was always a favorite theme with him, and his first oration may be said to have foreshadowed his subsequent career as a philanthropist and states- man. After serving his alma mater for two years as instructor, he entered upon the study of jurisprudence at the law-school in Lichfield, and in 1823 was admitted to practice at Dedham. In 1827 he was elected to the legislature of Massachusetts, and during his connection with that body was distinguished for the zeal with which he devoted himself to the interests of education and temperance. His first speech was in favor of relig- ious liberty. He was active in founding the State Lu- natic Asylum. In 1831 he removed to Boston, and was elected in 1836 to the state senate, of which he became president.