There was a delegate convention to nominate representatives,
of which I was a member. When the vote was announced, to
my surprise and consternation, I was one of the persons nominated.
Nobody had said a word to me about it beforehand. That was
Friday night. I told the Convention I could not accept such
a nomination without my father's approval. I was then twenty-
five years old. It was proposed that the Convention adjourn
until the next evening, and that meantime I should go down
to Concord and see if I could get my father's leave. Accordingly
the Convention adjourned to see if the infant candidate could
get permission to accept. My father told me he thought that
to go to the Legislature once would be useful to me in my
profession; I should learn how laws were made, and get acquainted
with prominent men from different parts of the State. So
he advised me to accept, if I would make up my mind that I
would go only for one year, and would after that stick to
the law, and would never look to politics as a profession
or vocation. I accepted the nomination, was elected, and
was made Chairman of one of the Law Committees in the House.
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