My own feeling about him--if it be worth while to record a personal impression--was that he was a man with the instinct for carrying big things through--that the problem tempted him, as a task which called for the exertion of powers which he was conscious of possessing.

In losing him we lost certainly the strongest will in his group, perhaps the strongest in the Convention; and it was a will for settlement.

It was, too, a will less hampered by regard for public opinion than that of any popularly elected representative man can be.

He had, I think, also eminently the persuasive gift which is not only inclined to give and take but can impart that disposition to others.
Mr.Pollock, who replaced him, was an able man, but singularly lacking in this quality.

He held his own views clearly and strongly, but his method of exposition accentuated differences: it had always a note of asperity, though this was certainly not deliberate.