Richard Henry Dana (Volume 2); A Biography - Livres de poche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. GEORGE BANCROFT. ? NEW YORK CITY RIOTS. ? TRENTON FALLS.? THE SATUKDAY CLUB. ? "TO CODA AND BACK." 1857. March 5. ThurtJay. Mrs. Metcalf is buried tu-, l.i from the Koinan Catholic Cliurcli in Franklin Stivet. There was a very large iitteiulance of judges, lawyers and friends of her family. The deep, uniform buss of the Requiem is still in my ears. (Yu- turios speak through it. How wise that church has been, and how firm, to maintain its liturgy, its chants, its universal language, against all the assaults of time and place. . . . Heard a good anecdote of [George] Bancroft and [B. F.] Hallett. llealey says lie heard it from O. A. Brownson. In 1844, when the Democrats carried the national election, and Bancroft wan appointed to a seat in the cabinet, he came to Boston and invited the chief men of the Democratic party to come to his house. The oilices were to be given out, and it is known that the member of the cabinet from each section of the country has the chief influence in recommending the nominations. Hallett had worked very hard in the campaign, and had high expectations. As soon as Hallett entered the room, says Brownson, Bancroft danced up to him and called out, " Ah, Mr. Hallett, I am charmed to see you. I know what a debt the party owes you for your ser1857. GEORGE DAK CROFT. 155 vices in tins campaign; and I will not rest until they are appreciated and rewarded." " Now," said Brown- son to Healey, "Mr. Bancroft said nothing of the kind to any other geutlema.ii present, from which I inferred that Hallett was the only man there who was not to have an office; and it turned out so." Juhf 4. Saturday. . . . Having before my eyes the possibility of spending Sunday in Albany or Utica, I took the afternoon train for New York, which I reached at about...