R. Hoar,
was also a constant, untiring, and enthusiastic champion.
Richard H. Dana, master of an exquisite English style, the
only Massachusetts advocate who ever encountered Rufus Choate
on equal terms, threw himself into the cause with all the
ardor of his soul. On the Connecticut River, George Ashmun,
the most powerful of the Whig champions in western Massachusetts,
found more than his match in Erastus Hopkins. William Claflin,
afterward Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor of Massachusetts,
member of the National House of Representatives, and Chairman
of the Republican National Committee, was then in his early
youth. But he had already gained a competent fortune by his
business sagacity. He brought to the cause his sound judgment,
his warm and affectionate heart, and his liberal hand. He
was then, as he has ever since been, identified with every
good and generous cause. His stanch friendship was then,
as it has been ever since, the delight and comfort of the
champions of freedom in strife and obloquy.
[Footnote]
* Shortly after Burlingame came into active life, he made a journey
to Europe.
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