3, 113), as related by Charles Dickens on the authority of Stanton, with characteristic amplifications.
Yours faithfully, JOHN HAY.
The Honorable George F.Hoar United States Senate My father, Samuel Hoar of Concord, was born in 1778 and died in 1856.

He was one of the most eminent lawyers at the Massachusetts Bar.

To this statement I can give better testimony than my own, in the following letter from the Honorable Eben F.Stone, late member of Congress from the Essex District.
WASHINGTON 9 March, '84.
_My dear Mr.Hoar:_ When I was a law student, I dined at Ipswich in our county, with the Judges of the Supreme Court and the members of the Essex Bar, who then had a room and a table by themselves.
The conversation took a professional turn, and a good deal was said about Mr.Choate's great skill and success as an advocate.

Judge Shaw then remarked that, sitting at nisi prius in different parts of the State, he had had an opportunity to compare the different lawyers who were distinguished for their success with juries, and that there was no man in the State, in his opinion, who had so much influence with a jury as Sam Hoar of Concord.

This he ascribed not simply to his legal ability, but largely to the confidence the people had in his integrity and moral character.
Yours truly, E.F.