However, the rumor had its advantages.

Regarding him as not in the matrimonial market, we were all much more free and easy in our manners with him than we would otherwise have been.

A series of anti-slavery conventions was being held in Madison County, and there I had the pleasure of hearing him for the first time.

As I had a passion for oratory, I was deeply impressed with his power.

He was not so smooth and eloquent as Phillips, but he could make his audience both laugh and cry; the latter, Phillips himself said he never could do.