These things all happened in the same year, I believe, certainly
in a very short time after I had done what I could to induce
the reappointment of General Corse and the selection of Judge
Putnam.
I freely admit that I have believed with all my heart and
soul in the principles of the Republican Party. But I think
there can be found few members of that party who have been
less controlled in their public actions by violent partisanship
than I have.
CHAPTER XXXI
SATURDAY CLUB
In 1877, about the time of my election to the Senate, I was
chosen a member of the famous Saturday Club. I always attended
the meetings when I could be in Boston until after the death
of my brother, when every man who was a member when I was
chosen was dead, except Mr. Norton and Judge Gray and the
younger Agassiz and Mr. Howells, and all of them had ceased
to be constant attendants.
They used to meet at the Parker House in Boston once a month.
Each member was at liberty to bring a guest.
I suppose there was never a merely social club with so many
famous men in it or another where the conversation was more
delightful since that to which Johnson and Burke and Goldsmith
and Garrick and Reynolds belonged.
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