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judiciary committee at the first session of Kentucky sent Frederick A. Trapnall, a that body that he attended. tall, handsome man, the ideal of a cultivated Beside him was Absalom Fowler of Ten gentleman, of agreeable manners and fas nessee, a man of square-built, powerful cinating conversation, with a flow of the frame and dark complexion, profoundly smoothest and most polished eloquence. learned in the law, caring for nothing save By his side was his partner Cocke, a tall, his profession, proud, bitter, fierce, sarcastic, slim man, with piercing black eyes deep set — a man who hated much and loved little, in his head, with a slightly awkward and whom many disliked and all feared, — a timid air, but who when roused spoke as a true orator; a genial

strong, scathing, and companionable though not an elegant man, a fine lawyer, speaker, whom men and a favorite with all would have avoided the bar, but who was had not his great doomed to drink him learning and ability self to death in con forced them to have sequence of domestic recourse to his ser misfortunes. vices, and who for From Kentucky, many years was to have too, came William perhaps the largest Cummins, an accom practice in the court. And from Massa plished lawyer and chusetts also came Al elegant gentleman, of bert Pike, one of the an intellectual and mostbrilliantmen that pleasing presence and America has produced, a strong speaker, and and one of her best who was soon to be poets; a man of most joined by his brother varied acquirements, Ebenezer, a man even more eminent at the and whose exquisite bar than himself. appreciation of every form of refined culture Within the year they would have made him were to be joined by W. K. SEBASTIAN a leader in his native George C. Watkins Boston, but who had and John Taylor, two come, by a strange freak, to bury himself in of the most striking figures in our history. the wilderness. He was then in the first Of Watkins we shall have occasion to flush of youth, and a handsomer man was speak hereafter. Taylor was one of the perhaps never seen, — with a face worthy most remarkable men of the South, — a tall, of an Apollo, and with curling locks of thin, red-haired man, repulsively ugly, hating all his kind, associating with no one, a gloomy, raven hair that would not have been un worthy of the god. scornful misanthrope; the most hatable of From Connecticut came Samuel H. Hemp men, but learned in the law, and .with an incomparable power of vituperation, a scath stead, a pleasant, affable man, of infinite en ing, blasting eloquence, that made him the ergy and animal spirits, of robust constitu tion and florid complexion, — a man of ripe terror of the bar. An Ishmaelite with his and liberal learning, a formidable lawyer, a hand against every man, he wandered from tireless worker, and of a genial disposition. North Carolina to Texas without a friend or