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Title: Ben Hardin; his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Little, Lucius P
Subjects: Hardin, Benjamin, 1784-1852
Publisher: Louisville (Ky.) Courier-journal job printing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ess that smacked of an aristocracy: There was, as I said the other day, a small Federal party in the Senate,and if I said anything on that occasion offensive to the powdered heads ofthese gentlemen and their affected nobility, I will take it back; but it wasliterally true. They lacked the ribbons and the star, and that was all; theycould not even board in the city, but must go to Georgetown and ride intheir splendid carriages, so brilliant that when the sun struck upon themthey gleamed as when the sun on the surrounding hills of Utica fell on theburnished arms of Caesars soldiers. *Life of Sam Dale. Mr. Hawes possessed fine social qualities, and exuberant humor. JohnQuincy Adams, who was a good talker, but almost devoid of humor, referring to a trip of a party ofCongressmen in May, 1834, to Harpers Ferry, says : Mr. Hawes talked much more than his share^sometimes to the great entertainment, and sometimes to the no small distaste, of the company. J. Q.Adams Memoirs, Vol. IX., page 142.
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.s ^ -a <! O o C/2 rt CO rtX) 236 BEN HARDIN. Congressmen had many other duties to perform, aside from thosethat are reported in the debates and proceedings. Committee meet-ings and labor thereat, investigations in the congressional library^^ andelsewhere for needed facts and statistics, encountering the lobbyistand hearing his insidious speech, and entertaining the occasional con-stituent who came to the national capital sight-seeing or office hunt-ing, were some of the tasks, more or less agreeable, of the Represen-tative. Mr. Hardin was accustomed to get copies of the poll booksof the various counties of his district, and from these send documentsthrough the mails to his constituents. A discourteous postmaster atBardstown, an intense Locofoco of the Jacksonian stripe, once refusedto deliver these missives. So Mr. Hardin, on his return home, pro-cured a wagon and hauled them to the court-house, and there hedistributed them, seasoning his favors with anathemas on the delin-quent o

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