the Constitution,"
pages 110, 309, 324.

APPENDIX II

Roger Minott Sherman, son of Roger Sherman's brother Josiah,
was born in Woburn, Mass., May 22, 1773. Mr. Sherman was
much attached to him and defrayed the cost of his education.
He was an inmate of his uncle's family while a student at
Yale College. He was graduated in the year 1792. He was
one of the ablest lawyers and advocates New England ever produced,
probably having no equal at the Bar of New England except
Jeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster. I attended a dinner of
the Alumni of Yale College some years ago. President Woolsey
sat on one side of me, and Dr. Leonard Bacon on the other;
and right opposite at the table was Rev. Dr. Atwater, then
I believe of Princeton, but formerly Mr. Sherman's pastor in
Fairfield. President Woolsey said that Roger Minott Sherman
came nearer his conception of Cicero than any other person
he ever heard speak. They used frequently to invite him to
deliver public addresses at the College. But he never would
accept the invitation. After refusal, the invitation would
be renewed again after a few years with like result.

To the above estimate of Mr. Sherman, Dr. Bacon and Mr. Atwater
agreed.

When I was in the Law School at Harvard, Professor Simon Greenleaf
told the class in one of his lectures that he was once travelling
through Connecticut in a carriage on a summer journey, and
came to a town, I think Fairfield, which was the county seat.
He stopped to get his dinner and rest his horses. While the
horses were being fed he went into the court-house, intending
to stay only a few minutes, and found Roger Minott Sherman
arguing a case before the Supreme Court with Judge Gould on
the other side. He was much impressed by Mr. Sherman's clear
and powerful argument. Mr. Sherman and Judge Gould were
engaged on opposite sides in nearly all the cases. Professor
Greenleaf was so much interested by what he heard that he
remained and attended court during the entire week. I do
not remember his exact language, but he, in substance, gave
an estimate of Mr. Sherman as a profound lawyer and able advocate,
not less exalted than President Woolsey had given of him as
an orator.

Some slight account of Roger Minott Sherman will be found
in Goodrich's "Recollections."

Mr. Evarts once told me that there was an important controversy,
involving the title to a valuable cargo, in which a lawyer
in Hartford was on one side, and a mem