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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI HERE AND THERE AND THE PRESIDENTS IKNEW President Johnson slightly, and, I am sorry to say, had a very poor opinion of him. Also I knew James G. Blaine, Charles Sumner, and most of the leading figures at the close of the war, but my closest friend among men of note was Judge Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney General and later Secretary of State in President Buchanan's Cabinet. I had known Judge Black casually before and during the war, but when he came to York to live in the early seventies I learned to know him intimately. Many amusing ancedotes were told of him. Once in returning from a trip of about a week, Mrs. Black, in looking over his wardrobe said: "Where are the shirts I gave you?" He answered: "Why you told me to put another one on every morning, which I did." She found him clothed with the six shirts. He was one of the most interesting characters of the period--a man of parts, of a lovable nature, albeit blunt and outspoken in his opinions. It is related of him that on one occasion, when he was conducting a case before Judge Chambers in the Franklin County Court, he became very severe, and even abusive. Judge Chambers said: "Black, you will have to apologize for your language." Black replied, quoting from Othello, "Haply I am Black, your Honour, and have not the soft parts of speech that chamberers have." This set the Judge to laughing and the point was not pressed. Black was a Shakespearean scholar, quick witted and full of apt quotations. He had the happy faculty of saying things which although sharp did not rankle. People could take things from him which from another would make them furiously angry. Once he gave the United States Supreme Court a lecture for lack of knowledge of the law. In describing a proposed bond issue he said: "Not satisfi...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150719613
- ISBN 13 9781150719615
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages74
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