Judge Curtis sits disfigured by his gown, and
presides with great dignity and admirable skill. I have no doubt he would
sentence one to death, if necessary, with inimitable phraseology and manners.
John P. Hale takes off his outside coat more sturdily than any man living can
do it, I presume, and looks so hearty and solid that I should think a jury
would come down like Davy Crockett's coon, without waiting for a shot. But my
keen, imperturbable little Durant has his greatness also; and it delights me to
see him on the right side.
SOURCE: Mary Potter Thacher Higginson, Editor, Letters
and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, p. 70
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