. Recollections of a lifetime : or men and things I have seen : in a series of familiar letters to a friend : historical, biographical, anecdotical, and descriptive . hem ! Perhapsthe silvery-whiteness of their heads—for the majoritywere past fifty, several past sixty—may have pleadedin extenuation of this sinister complexion of their most imposing man among them, in personalappearance, was George Cabot,^ the president. Hewas over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, and ofa manly step. His hair was white—for he was pastsixty—his eye blue, his complexion slightly florid. Heseemed to
. Recollections of a lifetime : or men and things I have seen : in a series of familiar letters to a friend : historical, biographical, anecdotical, and descriptive . hem ! Perhapsthe silvery-whiteness of their heads—for the majoritywere past fifty, several past sixty—may have pleadedin extenuation of this sinister complexion of their most imposing man among them, in personalappearance, was George Cabot,^ the president. Hewas over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, and ofa manly step. His hair was white—for he was pastsixty—his eye blue, his complexion slightly florid. Heseemed to me like Washington—as if the great man, fideuce of Hamilton, King, Jay, and other notabilities of that day, andthat he made the Evening Post wortliy of the editorial successorship ofLeggett (1829) and of Bryant (1836). * George Cabot was a native of Salem, Mass., born in 1752. lie Avasoriginally a shipmaster, but he rose to various stations of became a senator of the United States, and in 1 vtas appointedthe first Secretary of the Navy, but declined. His ,<er8onal influencein Boston w&a unbounded. He died in that citv, IQ-^ GEORGt La Cor. \ui. 2, 1). 3G. HISTOKICAL, AJS^ECDOTICAL, ETC. 37 as painted by Stuart, had walked out of the canvas,and lived and breathed among us. He was, in fact,Washiugtonian in bis whole air and bearing, as wasproper for one who was rVTashingtons friend, and who had drunk deep at the same fountain—that ofthe Kevolution—of the spirit of truth, honor, andpatriotism. In aspect and general appearance, hewas strikingly dignified, and such was the effect ofhis presence, that in a crowded room, and amid othermen of mark—when you once became conscious thathe was there, you could hardly forget it. You seem-ed always to see him—as the traveler in Switzerlandsees Mont Blanc towering above other mountainsaround him, wherever he may be. And yet he waseasy and gracious in his manners, his countenancewearing a calm but radian
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