Anecdotes of public men; by John W. Forney.

62 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
this memorable display, to complete the parallel with the Virginia statesman and patriot.
They were eminently representative men. As orators they
were most dissimilar. McDowell was tall and dignified; Lovejoy short, quick, and impetuous. McDowell's complexion was
light; Lovejoy's dark as a Spaniard's, save in moments of excitement, when it fairly glowed. Had McDowell lived during
the war he would undoubtedly have been a Secessionist, like all
of his school; but his words are not less applicable to-day than
they were in 1850. Lovejoy lived to see three years of war,
and to enjoy the abolition of slavery, for which he had prayed
and toiled. He preceded his friend, Abraham Lincoln, a little
more than a twelvemonth. I knew him well. He was as generous as he was brave; as gentle as he was sincere. A devoted friend, a chivalric foe, he has left a record honorable to
himself, his posterity, and his country.
McDowell died in August of 1851, in less than a year after
his noble speech from which I quote, aged fifty-five. Lovejoy
died March 25, I864, aged fifty-three. They should have lived
longer, but they lived long enough to leave thousands to mourn
their loss and to revere their memory.
[March 2, I871.]
XIII.
JAMES BUCHANAN had, like most men, a few favorite anecdotes, which he was sure to reproduce to every new visitor who
ate his excellent dinners and drank his nutty old Madeira.
One of these related to President Jackson. It was a custom
of Mr. Buchanan's enemies to say that he never had the entire
confidence of Old Hickory. Certain it is he never had the support of Amos Kendall, Francis P. Blair, or Andrew J. Donel