To him life
was made up of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.
But with all his friendliness and kindliness, with all his
great hold upon the love and respect of the people, with all
his large circle of friends, with all his delight in companionship
and agreeable converse, he dared to be alone. He found good
society enough always, if no other were at hand, in himself.
He was many times called upon to espouse unpopular causes
and unpopular doctrines. From the time when in his youth
he devoted himself to the anti-slavery cause, then odious
in the nostrils of his countrymen, to the time when in the
last days of his life he raised his brave voice against a
policy upon which the majority of his political associates
seemed bent, he never yielded the conclusions of his own judgment
or the dictates of his own conscience to any majority, to
any party dictation, or to any public clamor. When Freedom,
Righteousness and Justice were on his side he considered himself
in the majority. He was constant in his attendance on the
worship of a small and unpopular religious denomination.
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