He is a Peer in his own country." "I am a Sovereign in my own country, Sir," replied Burlingame, "and shall lose caste if I associate with Peers." And he went out.
[End of Footnote] Each of these men would have been amply fitted in all respects for the leader of a great party in State or Nation.

Each of them could have defended any cause in which he was a believer, by whatever champion assailed.

They had also their allies and associates among the representatives of the press.

Among these were Joseph T.Buckingham, of the Boston _Courier,_ then the head of the editorial fraternity in Massachusetts; John Milton Earle, the veteran editor of the Worcester _Spy;_ William S.Robinson, afterward so widely known as Warrington, whose wit and keen logic will cause his name to be long preserved among the classics of American literature.
I have spoken of some of these men more at length elsewhere.
I knew them, all but two, very intimately.

I only knew Joseph T.Buckingham by sight.