. Reminiscences and memorials of men of the revolution and their families . on heapedupon them by their opponents in my own town ; enemies of their country, traitors, and manyother forms of calumniation were often in my ears ;but when the Massachusetts legislature adoptedtheir report, and sent such men as Harrison GrayOtis, Thomas H. Perkins, and William Sullivancommissioners to Washinorton, askinsr Conoress toconsent to the measures of a convention contain-ing the names of George Cabot, Harrison GrayOtis, Samuel S. Wilde, Nathan Dane, WilliamPrescott, Joseph Lyman, Stephen Longfellow Jr.,Dani
. Reminiscences and memorials of men of the revolution and their families . on heapedupon them by their opponents in my own town ; enemies of their country, traitors, and manyother forms of calumniation were often in my ears ;but when the Massachusetts legislature adoptedtheir report, and sent such men as Harrison GrayOtis, Thomas H. Perkins, and William Sullivancommissioners to Washinorton, askinsr Conoress toconsent to the measures of a convention contain-ing the names of George Cabot, Harrison GrayOtis, Samuel S. Wilde, Nathan Dane, WilliamPrescott, Joseph Lyman, Stephen Longfellow Jr.,Daniel Waldo, George Bliss, Hodijah Baylies,Joshua Thomas, from Massachusetts, and others ofequal ability and the same stern patriotism fromother New England States, even we youth of theday felt somewhat the wisdom, uprightness, andpurity of the purposes of that convention, whichfather and grandfather daily commended in ourearnest ears. In 1814 Mr. Otis was appointed Judge of theCourt of Common Pleas of Massachusetts, and heldthat ofhce until 1818, when he was elected to the. JOHN LOVELL.
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