With the air of lofty detachment from sordid interests, his sentences, clear and rapid, read like the clarion notes of a peroration, and impressed his great audiences with an earnestness that often carried conviction even to unwilling listeners.
Alexander describes the powerful oratory of a speaker who could sway even skeptical audiences.
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This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
He used to get angry with men simply because they voted against him on questions in which he took an interest.
He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
Public sentiment generally sustained the Administration in such action, but many persons, including conservative Republicans, frequently questioned the right or justice of such procedure.
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