...lled Tristam Burges's replies to John Randolph as not equal in force and far inferior in scholarly taste and gentlemanly dignity. Two friends of the senator in his youth, Judge Richard Fletcher and Mrs. R. C. Waterston , wrote letters warm with admiration and gratitude. Whittier in an ode commemorated the speech, in which he found— Brougham's scathing power with Canning's grace combined, and recallin...