The public, friends and foes, judged of him by a few striking and picturesque qualities.

There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.

He was born to be loved or hated.

Nobody occupied a middle ground as to him.

In addition to the striking qualities which caught the public eye, he was a man of profound knowledge of our political history, of a sure literary taste, and of great capacity as an orator.