He was on the Judiciary Committee.

He made brief, pithy speeches which generally convinced the House.

He declined to continue in the National service, where the people of Maine would have been willing to keep him until his dying day.

He afterward became Chief Justice of Maine, and sustained the high character which the Bench of that State has had from the beginning.
There is one anecdote of him, which does not come within the sphere of my recollections, but which I think perhaps my readers will prefer to anything that does.

A few years ago a young man who kept a grocery store was tried before Judge Peters for larceny.