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the matter of my ruling came up in the course of his examination, and his suggestions led me to examine the matter further, and change my ruling.”
He was one of the few judges I have known who was big enough to do such a telling as that.
From that day to the day of his death we were fast friends.
If any one should desire to see the case, it will be found in the 1st Metcalf Mass.
R., Reed vs. Batchelder, p. 559, where the judge's later ruling was sustained by the Supreme Court.
It may enliven any legal reader to tell that another young gentleman was examined for admission some little time after, and the morning following, he said to me: “The judge asked me a question last night which I do not know whether I answered right or not. He asked me what was an administrator de bonis non, and I told him it was an administrator where there was not any goods.”
I said, “I hope he won't reject you on account of that answer, because it is generally right in point of fact, even if wrong in point of law.”
During the autumn of 1840, I began my education in national politics, making my first speech in favor of Van Buren as against Harrison, who was so triumphantly elected.
Harrison's election did me a great good, for, as my speeches did not change the result, I was for a time disgusted with politics and stuck to law, as I would advise every young man to do, until he has secured at least a competence, so as not to be obliged in after life to live upon politics.
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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