He put it into the first edition of the "Commonwealth"; whether it is in the last edition or not, I cannot say.
On another occasion the same gentleman came to an issue with me in a debate, and wound up his speech by explaining that I occupied what "lawyers would call a quasi position on the bill." His rival was a man of totally different type, a man of great natural dignity, also born in Ireland.

He had served with gallantry in the Civil War.

After the close of the war he organized an expedition to conquer Canada.

The expedition, however, got so drunk before reaching Albany that it was there incarcerated in jail, whereupon its leader abandoned it and went into New York politics instead.

He was a man of influence, and later occupied in the Police Department the same position as Commissioner which I myself at one time occupied.