...nd scholarly man, came together at the house of Mr. A. Brewster, on K Street, Washington. There had been two or three of such informal meetings, consisting mainly of residents of Washington, when Senators Wilson and Pomeroy, B. O. Cook, Member of the House, and myself were invited to this respectable self-constituted council, November 20, 1866. Nearly all of the dozen or more gentlemen who were present, a...