The Chief Justice left General Eaton's house when I did,
and asked me if I were going his way. So we walked together
about a mile. He talked all the way about the next nomination
for the Presidency; about the prospects of the various candidates,
and the probability of the success of the Democratic Party
if they had a candidate who would be satisfactory to the Republicans
who were disaffected with the present policies. It was evident
that his great man had this subject, to use a cant phrase,
"on the brain." This was before the Chief Justice had his
paralytic shock. He was in the full vigor of health, a model
of manly strength and manly beauty, giving every evidence
that his great intellectual power was undiminished.
Not long afterward a friend of mine went to Ohio with his
wife. In those days it was necessary for persons going from
Washington to the Northwest to cross Baltimore in a carriage--
the Washington station and the Ohio station being in different
parts of the city. A friend of my friend went to Baltimore
to see his wife, who was going to Ohio, across the city and
then to return to Washington.
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