. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . George F. Edmunds, of Vermont,I was invariably reminded of the old pictures of the saints,especially that of St. Jerome, and I was disappointed innot descrying the figurative or literal halo that encircledthat saints head. He was under forty years of age whenhe entered the Senate, but was decidedly bald, and had apious, sanctimonious appearance. He dressed plainly andin good taste. He quickly came to the front in debate, asdid Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, both of these great menbrushing aside without ceremony or apology, the cob-webe
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . George F. Edmunds, of Vermont,I was invariably reminded of the old pictures of the saints,especially that of St. Jerome, and I was disappointed innot descrying the figurative or literal halo that encircledthat saints head. He was under forty years of age whenhe entered the Senate, but was decidedly bald, and had apious, sanctimonious appearance. He dressed plainly andin good taste. He quickly came to the front in debate, asdid Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, both of these great menbrushing aside without ceremony or apology, the cob-webed, unwritten law of abstention from much participa-tion in debate during the first year of their senatorial terms;Edmunds entered the Senate several years before Morton. His immediate predecessor was Solomon Foote, a veryhandsome old gentleman, attired in full-dress suit; of mostgracious, courtly and dignified manners, clean shaven face,fresh, pure complexion, bright, large, and wide open especial forte was his proficiency in parliamentary 34. GENERAL PHILLIP H. SHERIDAN, U. S. A. Civil-war Echoes — Character law. He had been President pro tempore. His rulingswould furnish splendid guides for the novitiate in parlia-mentary procedure. Edmunds at once took leading rank in the Senate as abroad-guaged, logical, cool-headed, quick-witted, andsplendidly-equipped debater and able constitutional was essentially a logician. His speeches were entirelyfree from indications of great scholastic attainments; noth-ing of rhetorical flourishes; nothing for dramatic were generally severely dry and argumentative; noclassical interjections, no pedantic allusions or was satisfied, unlike Sumner, to give his own thoughtsalone, without interlarding those of the great ones of an-tiquity. As a speaker, Edmunds was unattractive to thelayman, save as he was of a mathematical or logical turnof mind. Elis speeches were occasionally enlivened withsparks of
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