He has proven himself a politician.

It was his accident and not his fault not to remain with us in our party! Yet I happen to know that though once defeated for the presidency and twice for the nomination, he remains true to his Free Soil beliefs.

It has just occurred to me, since our friend from Kentucky mentions it, that could we by some fair means, some legal means--some means of adjustment and compromise, if you please, gentlemen,--place this young lady under the personal care of this able exponent of the _suaviter in modo_, and induce him to conduct her, preferably to some unknown point beyond the Atlantic Ocean, there to lose her permanently, we should perhaps be doing our country a service, and would also be relieving this administration of one of its gravest concerns.

Best of all, we should be using a fox for a cat's-paw, something which has not often been done." The matter-of-fact man who presided straightened his shoulders as though with relief at some sign of action; yet he did not relax his insistent gravity sufficiently to join the smile that followed this sally.
"Let us be sure, gentlemen, of one thing at a time," he resumed.
"As we come to this final measure suggested by our friend from Kentucky, I am at a loss how further to proceed.

What we do can not be made public.