The tears gushed down the cheeks of women and young men and old.

Everything was forgotten but the one magnificent personality.

When the din had subsided somewhat, Mr.Everett, with his never-failing readiness and grace, said: "I would I might anticipate a little the function of my office, and saying--_Expectatur oratio in vernacula_-- call upon my illustrious friend who has just entered upon the stage to speak for me.

But I suppose that the proprieties of the occasion require that I speak for myself." It is to the credit of Mr.Everett and of that other Massachusetts orator, Rufus Choate, that no tinge of jealousy or of envy ever embittered in the smallest degree their hearty love and support of their friend.

They were his pupils, his companions, his supporters, his lovers, while he lived, and were his best eulogists when he died.
I heard another speech of his, which I think was never reported.
He appeared before a Committee of the Legislature as counsel for the remonstrants against the scheme to fill up the Back Bay lands.
I do not think the employment of a Senator of the United States as counsel before the Legislature would be approved by public opinion now.
I do not know what year it was, but probably 1849 or 1850.
He had grown old.