The singular variety of his career could hardly be paralleled outside of the United States.

If his industry had been equal to his natural gifts he would have been one of the first orators in the country.
-- Samuel S.Cox had served eight years in the House from Ohio (1857 to 1865) as the representative of the Columbus district.

At the close of his last term he went to New York and engaged in the practice of law in company with Mr.Charlton Lewis, a man of brilliant attainments and one of the most accomplished graduates of Yale.

But it was not possible for Mr.Cox to keep out of the political field.

His talent for the stump, his ready wit, and, above all, his good nature and good sense, commended him to the New York Democrats, and he appeared in the Forty-first Congress from one of the city districts.