Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . existed of complying with yourrequest; but on consulting with my brother-judge of your circuit,he insisted that the object of your magazine required a different procure another to write for me, was not possible within the periodlimited by your letter, as no one knew much about me, short of myresidence in Tennessee; and then the idea that a lawyer practising be-fore me, and an intimate friend, should sit down and coolly and trulydiscuss my conduct for thirty years, and my c
Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . existed of complying with yourrequest; but on consulting with my brother-judge of your circuit,he insisted that the object of your magazine required a different procure another to write for me, was not possible within the periodlimited by your letter, as no one knew much about me, short of myresidence in Tennessee; and then the idea that a lawyer practising be-fore me, and an intimate friend, should sit down and coolly and trulydiscuss my conduct for thirty years, and my character and capacity,could not be entertained for a moment. Such a memoir could hardly 812 SKETCHES OF EMINENT AMERICANS. be more reliable than an epitaph, or an eulogy, over the recent therefore threw off the foregoing slight sketches, which, with my vigor-ous memory of past incidents, cost me not much trouble, and little matter may be readable, if not instructive; nor will it indicateanything that is not true. Most respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. , Dec. 24. ~,?^lvH S SaAi
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