33/61 He was dressed in the old-fashioned style that Mr.Webster used, with blue coat, brass buttons and a buff-colored vest. His coat and buttons were well known all over the country. One day when William Lloyd Garrison was inveighing against some conduct of the Southern whites, and said: "They say the South is quiet now. But where is Poland ?" An irreverent newspaper man said: "He is up in Vermont polishing brass buttons." The Judge was a very able lawyer, and a man of very great industry. |