In every respect he was a model legislator.

His example can be most profitably imitated by those who would arise to eminence in the councils of the nation.
"My seat was, for two years, by his side, and it would have scarcely more surprised me to miss one of the marble columns of the Hall from its pedestal than to see his chair empty.

* * * I shall, perhaps, be pardoned for introducing here a slight personal recollection, which serves, in some degree, to illustrate his habits.

The sessions of the last two days of (I think) the twenty-third Congress, were prolonged, the one for nineteen, and the other for seventeen hours.

At the close of the last day's session, he remained in the hall of the House the last seated member of the body.
One after another, the members had gone home; many of them for hours.