Atlas."
But perhaps the most remarkable testimony to his character,
one almost unexampled in the history of public men, is that
paid to him by Oliver Ellsworth, himself one of the greatest
men of his time,--Chief Justice of the United States, Envoy
to France, leader in the Senate for the first twelve years
of the Constitution, and author of the Judiciary Act. He
had been on the Bench of the Superior Court of Connecticut,
with Mr. Sherman, for many years. They served together in
the Continental Congress, and in the Senate of the United
States. They were together members of the Convention that
framed the Constitution, and of the State Convention in Connecticut
that adopted it. Chief Justice Ellsworth told John Adams
that he had made Mr. Sherman his model in his youth. Mr.
Adams adds: "Indeed I never knew two men more alike, except
that the Chief Justice had the advantage of a liberal education,
and somewhat more extensive reading. Mr. Sherman was born
in the State of Massachusetts, and was one of the strongest
and soundest pillars of the Revolution." It would be hard
to find another case of life-long and intimate companionship
between two public men where such a declaration by either
of the other would not seem ludicrous.
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