He maintained
his place on that great tribunal to the satisfaction of his
friends and that admiration of his countrymen, in spite of
failing health and of the fact that the best years of his life
had been given to other studies than that of the law.
It is a good omen for our country that the friends and disciples
of Charles Sumner unite with the people of Mississippi in
their reverence for this noble and manly character.
I am faithfully yours,
GEORGE F. HOAR
Mrs. Lamar.
CHAPTER XVI
SOME SOUTHERN SENATORS
Another most delightful Democrat, with whom it was my pleasure
to form quite intimate relations, was Senator Howell E. Jackson
of Tennessee. He had been in the Confederate service. I
think he did not approve Secession, but like most others who
dwelt in the South, thought his allegiance primarily due to
his State. He was an admirable lawyer, faithful, industrious,
clear-headed and learned in the law. He had been a Whig before
the war, and, like other Southern Whigs, favored a moderate
protective tariff. He was anxious to have the South take
her place as a great manufacturing community, for which her
natural resources of iron and coal and her great water power
gave her such advantages.
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