Indeed, there was so much doubt and opposition that I feared a repeal, until some months after Col.

Kane came to me and said: "There is a young lawyer from Steubenville named Stanton who would like to be introduced to you." I was in a gracious mood and consented to receive the young lawyer named Stanton.

As he came into the room and advanced toward me, immediately I felt myself in the presence of a master mind, of a soul born to command.
When introduced he gravely took my hand, and said: "I called to congratulate you upon the passage of your bill.

It is a change I have long desired to see." We sat and talked on the subject some time, and my fears vanished into thin air.

If this man had taken that law into favor it would surely stand, and as he predicted be "improved and enlarged." I have never been so forcibly impressed by any stranger.