Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 575
ith the blended fires of imagination and sensibility,which swept along the minds of his hearers on thetorrent of his eloquence. He was fanciful andhumorous, too. On one occasion a witness testified that he hadfound one of Mr. Choates clients crying, and thatwhen the witness asked him what was the… … RUFUS CHOATE. ten oclock, in that flood of tears, his hopes wentout like a candle. In March, 1844, he delivered a famous speech,and thus alluded to a statement that the American 875-] AMERICAN ORATORS. 545
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