. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . 29 Civil-war Echoes — Character inquiry from the fact of our intimacy. He made me noreply at all, which at once gave me negative confirmationof my own personal surmises. Senator Trumbull was anhonest, incorruptible, and able lawyer, but I do not thinkhe ever rose to the height of true statesmanship. He hadthe respect, but not the full confidence of the Republicanleaders. Shortly before his return to the Democratic partyhe charged my father, Sumner, Wade, Chandler, Nye, anda few others, in open Senate, with being factionists, andreceive
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . 29 Civil-war Echoes — Character inquiry from the fact of our intimacy. He made me noreply at all, which at once gave me negative confirmationof my own personal surmises. Senator Trumbull was anhonest, incorruptible, and able lawyer, but I do not thinkhe ever rose to the height of true statesmanship. He hadthe respect, but not the full confidence of the Republicanleaders. Shortly before his return to the Democratic partyhe charged my father, Sumner, Wade, Chandler, Nye, anda few others, in open Senate, with being factionists, andreceived, therefore, such a verbal castigation from the first-named, who, in replying stood within half a dozen feet ofhim, that the usual pallor of his bloodless face increasedand he sat still and mute with blanched countenance. The onslaught was terrific and was never afterward pro-voked by the senator from Illinois. Here comes Henry Wilson,—whose real name givenhim by his parents was Jeremiah Colbaith,—the junior sena-tor from Massachusetts; plethoric,
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