Lincoln lent him efficient aid in the accomplishment of his object.

"Indeed," remarks Mr.
Hubbard, "I very much doubt if the bill could have passed as easily as it did without his valuable help." "We were thrown much together," continues Mr.Hubbard, "our intimacy increasing.

I never had a friend to whom I was more warmly attached.

His character was almost faultless; possessing a warm and generous heart, genial, affable, honest, courteous to his opponents, persevering, industrious in research, never losing sight of the principal point under discussion, aptly illustrating by his stories which were always brought into good effect.

He was free from political trickery or denunciation of the personal character of his opponents.