I had and have a great regard for
him. There was not a dishonest hair on the old fellow's head.
His health failed soon after, so he had no opportunity to
render further service, which would undoubtedly have caused
that unpleasant affair to be forgotten.
Judge Luke P. Poland of Vermont was another very interesting
character. He was well known throughout the country. He
had a tall and erect and very dignified figure, and a fine
head covered with a beautiful growth of gray hair. He was
dressed in the old-fashioned style that Mr. Webster used,
with blue coat, brass buttons and a buff-colored vest. His
coat and buttons were well known all over the country. One
day when William Lloyd Garrison was inveighing against some
conduct of the Southern whites, and said: "They say the South
is quiet now. Order reigns in Warsaw. But where is Poland?"
An irreverent newspaper man said: "He is up in Vermont polishing
brass buttons."
The Judge was a very able lawyer, and a man of very great
industry. He and Judge Hoar went over together the revision
of the United States statutes of 1874, completing a labor
which had been neglected by Caleb Cushing.
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