His vigorous protests in the committee-room against the election of surrogates, sheriffs and county clerks had defeated that proposition, and in referring to the section of the report making justices of the peace elective, he said it had been a source of sincere regret that the committee overruled him.
Alexander recounts a political figure's regret over committee decisions regarding justices.
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His lightest word, sent thrilling to the rim of a vast audience, swayed it with the magic of control.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Perhaps, on the whole, nothing in Van Buren's official life showed greater political courage or discernment.
Gerrit Smith was a noble example of the champions of freedom.
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