But at the time of the hubbub against me in Boston, Charles Emerson stood alone of a large company in defence of free thought and speech, and declared that he had rather see Boston in ashes than that I or anybody should be debarred in any way from perfectly free speech." Robert C.Winthrop, who was Charles Emerson's intimate friend in boyhood, wrote for the _Advertizer_ a beautiful obituary notice.

He says: "Emerson was eminently a man of genius.
We know not that in his riper years he ever wrote a line of poetry, but no one could have listened to him, either in private or public without feeling that he had a poet's power; while his prose composition was of so pure and finished a style as to show plainly that close perusal of the English Classics in which he so much delighted.

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