They had come to look after me--that was evident.

By no chance could they find me in more equivocal company.
In addition to ourselves--bad enough, from the Kentucky point of view--Theodore Tilton, Donn Piatt and David A.Wells were in the room.
When the Kentuckians crossed the threshold and were presented seriatim the face of each was a study.

Even a proper and immediate application of whisky and water did not suffice to restore their lost equilibrium and bring them to their usual state of convivial self-possession.

Colonel Johnston told me years after that when they went away they walked in silence a block or two, when the old judge, a model of the learned and sedate school of Kentucky politicians and jurists, turned to him and said: "It is no use, Stoddart, we cannot keep up with that young man or with these times.

'Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace!'" IV The Jupiter Tonans of reform in attendance upon the convention was Col.
Alexander K.McClure.He was one of the handsomest and most imposing of men; Halstead himself scarcely more so.