Young Garrison attended this caucus, and made havoc of its cut and dried programme, by moving the nomination of Harrison Gray Otis, instead of the candidate, a Mr.
Benjamin Gorham, agreed upon by the leaders.

Harrison Gray Otis was one of Garrison's early and particular idols.

He was, perhaps, the one Massachusetts politician whom the young Federalist had placed on a pedestal.

And so on this occasion he went into the caucus with a written speech in his hat, eulogistic of his favorite.

He had meant to have the speech at his tongue's end, and to get it off as if on the spur of the moment.