as before. "Those opposed," remarked the President--
in tones perceptibly less conciliatory than an hour earlier--"will
say, No." The scarcely audible, but none the less effective "no"
prevailed, the leader meanwhile giving no sign and apparently rapt
as if unravelling the mysteries beyond the veil.

A silence that could be felt now in very truth fell upon the meeting
in the old courthouse assembled. Even the bystanders seemed
impressed that something far out of the ordinary was happening.

Receiving little in the way of encouragement, the Chairman of
the late committee, as he dubiously looked around upon the forms
of the silent majority--each of whom sat apparently buried in
thought that touched the very depths,--again and for the last time
addressed the presiding officer:

"Mr. President, I move _that we adjourn."_

Conclusions being again tried in wonted parliamentary form between
the opposing forces, with like result as before, the venerable
president,--by way of prelude first giving full vent to an exclamation
nowhere to be found in the Methodist "book of discipline,"--at once
indignantly vacated the chair, and literally shook the dust of the
court-room from his feet. The others "stood not upon the order of
their going," and although fifty years have come and gone, that
identical Bar meeting in the old courthouse at Metamora _is still in
session,_--never having been officially adjourned even to this day.

XLVII
THE HAYNE-WEBSTER DEBATE RECALLED

THE PUBLIC CAREER OF LYMAN TRUMBULL--HE HEARS CALHOUN MAKE A MASTERLY
SPEECH IN HIS OWN DEFENCE--TARIFF LAW THE SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION
--MR. HAYNE'S REPLY.

Ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull called upon me at the Vice-President's
Chamber a few months before his death. It was upon the occasion
of his last visit to Washington. He pointed out to me with much
interest the seat he had occupied for many years in the Senate.
The Senators to whom I introduced him had all come in since his
day. His associates in that chamber, with three or four exceptions,
had passed beyond the veil.

The public career of Mr. Trumbull began nearly two-thirds of a
century ago. He was distinguished as a judge, and later as an able
and active participant in exciting debates in the Senate, extending
from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise to the impeachment of
President Johnson. He was a member when the sessions of the Senate
were held in the old chamber, and Cass, Crittenden, Douglas