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and his usual disregard of rule. I do not mean to imply that he would not have hit Governor Brown; on the contrary, he might have perforated him in a dozen places at once. But one thing is sure-Governor Brown would have clasped his long white fingers around the pistol butt, adjusted it to his gray eye, and set his bullet within the eighth of an inch of the place he had selected. I should not be surprised if he drew a diagram of General Toombs, and marked off with square and compass the exact spot he wanted to hit."

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

The Colquitts.

ENIUS is not always sparingly apportioned either to isolated individuals or to single generations.

In the State of Delaware the senatorial toga until now has been literally an heirloom in the Bayard household; while the Salisburys, scarcely less favored, have seldom missed the roll-calls of the upper congressional arena. The Adams family of Massachusetts and the Harrison family of Indiana and Ohio-originally from Virginia-have each given the White House two presidential occupants, notwithstanding the omnipresent fact that American families are quite numerous and presidential honors somewhat scarce. The Beechers, of Connecticut and New York; the Lees, of the Old Dominion; and the Breckinridges and the Clays, of Kentucky, are also names which history has often reproduced. In Georgia the Lamars and the Jacksons and the Cobbs have been prominent in public life since the time of the Revolution; while the Lumpkins and the Crawfords have also been prolific in distinguished representatives. But the only instance on record where father and son have illustrated Georgia in the highest arena of the nation is furnished by the two Colquitts, Walter T. Colquitt, the elder, and Alfred H. Colquitt, the younger.

Without an exception Walter T. Colquitt was perhaps the most versatile genius which this State has ever known. To quote Judge Richard H. Clark, he was Sheridan and Garrick and Spurgeon all united in one. He doubtless never thought of going upon the stage, but no man in American public life ever mastered more completely the dramatic art. He was potentially, if not technically, an actor. He often plead for his clients upon his knees, and so powerfully was he able to sway the emotions of men. under the influence of his passionate appeals that jurors were frequently known to give audible responses. He could argue the law in the case with equal skill before the court. On the hustings he had no superior at a time when Toombs and Stephens were beginning to electrify the State. In the upper branch of Congress he was the peer of any of the great party leaders. And in the pulpit of the Methodist church he preached like Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed Greek.

Judging solely from the traditions which have been handed down, Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin was probably the only other Georgian who possessed such musical powers of voice as Judge Colquitt. It seems that both men were marvelously gifted in this respect, being able to sound almost any note in the scale of harmony and to move at will from the softest murmurs of Œolian melody to the loudest peals of organ thunder. By an interesting coincidence they were students together at Princeton College; and they were both profoundly religious. Dr. W. J. Scott says that while attending the courts of Georgia Judge Colquitt has often been known to make the most wonderful jury appeals in the court-room during the day and to preach the most wonderful gospel sermons

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