vehement, it was because of his moderation
and self-restraint; if not pungent and dogmatic, it was marked by
sustained earnestness and finished beauty. If he had not predominantly
that power which is called by the older rhetoricians amplification, he
eminently had another, as rarely met with in perfection, the power of
exact, unincumbered, logical statement. There was sometimes in him a
reticence as admirable as it was unique. You wondered why he did not
say more, and yet if he had, it would only have injured the effect.
The word exactly fitted the sentiment. The idea was insphered in the
expression. There was no excess or extravagance in anything he did or
said. His thoughts glided softly and sweetly from his pen, as a
rivulet from a silver fountain.

"I have sometimes thought that Professor Haddock's intellectual powers
were nowhere displayed to more advantage than in the mingled grave and
gay, learned and mirthful intercourse of social life. The very tones
of his voice, sympathetic and attractive, the absence of dogmatism, or
superciliousness, or self-assertion,--the mingled deference and
independence, the clear and sustained thought, the ready insight, the
quick apprehension of proprieties, the intelligent, dexterous, but
never caustic reply, the sure appreciation of the feelings of others,
and the power of making them, even the lowliest, feel that what they
said was listened to with interest,--the sense of the droll and
ludicrous, the responsive laughter, not boisterous, but hearty,
bringing tears into the eyes,--all gave a peculiar charm to this form
of intercourse. It was a ministry of beneficence, diffusing kindness,
intelligence, and gentleness, enlivening many a dull hour, filling
many a vacant mind, and inspiring many a worthy purpose.

"'Great openness and candor, good sense, the reading of a scholar, the
originality of a man who sometimes thought for himself, aspirations
after excellence much higher than those of many others,--all these
traits came out in his familiar talks, in which he rather unbent than
exerted himself; at the same time he was as gentle and attentive a
listener as a man could wish, a truly sociable being, with whom you
could talk all day, and then all night, and never feel weary.'[42]

[42] Professor Torrey.

"In 1850, he received from Mr. Fillmore the appointment of _Charge
d'Affaires_ at the court of Portugal, and in the spring of 1851 sailed
for Lisbon, by way of England. I