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Wirt Falin agreed, and that's how they made peace to-day. Now Rufe says he won't go at all truce or no truce. My wife in thar is a Tolliver, but both sides comes to me and I keeps peace with both of 'em." No doubt he did, Hale thought, keep peace or mischief with or against anybody with that face of his.
One could not require a better illustration of that faculty of "apparently deep self-conviction" which Wirt had noted in the Chief Justice.
Perhaps the best modern defense of these laws is by A. H. Everett, in his Life of Henry, 230-233; but his statements seem to be founded on imperfect information. Wirt, publishing his opinion under the responsibility of his great professional and official position, affirms that on the whole question, "the clergy had much the best of the argument." Life of Henry, 22. Perry, Hist. Coll. i. 510.
Little wonder that the harassed President in distant Washington was obsessed with the idea that New England was on the verge of secession. William Wirt who visited Washington at this time has left a vivid picture of ruin and desolation: "I went to look at the ruins of the President's house.
Wirt for President, because one white man had been stolen. The murder of Jacob Cannon by Owen Daw did produce some distant comment a little later, chiefly because of the apathy of the Delaware society to pursue the murderer.
When the performance was concluded, I had the felicity of a presentation and conversation with the two tall and scraggy Miss Pontos; and Miss Wirt, the governess, sat down to entertain us with variations on 'Sich a gettin' up Stairs. They were determined to be in the fashion.
Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585. Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585. Henry Adams, Life of Gallatin, 59, 60. Wirt, 9. Wirt, 13. This is the passage on which Jefferson, in his extreme old age, made the characteristically inaccurate comment: "His biographer says, 'He read Plutarch every year. I doubt if he ever read a volume of it in his life." Curtis, Life of Webster, i. 585.
Few things touching the life of Patrick Henry can be more notable or more instructive than the contrast presented by these two narratives. On reaching the scene of action, on the 1st of December, Patrick Henry "found," says Wirt, "on the courtyard such a concourse as would have appalled any other man in his situation.
Richard Rush, the son of the Jeffersonian radical of 1800, was made candidate for the Vice-Presidency in the hope of winning Pennsylvania; Clay did his utmost to stem the tide in the West; Daniel Webster was, of course, on the side of Adams; William Wirt and James Barbour stood up bravely in Virginia for a doomed cause.
Jackson reached, I stopped for an hour to see the Governor of Mississippi, Clarke, an old acquaintance, and give instructions to Brigadier Wirt Adams, the local commander; then took rail to Meridian, eighty miles, where I found the records of the department left by General Polk, as well as several officers of the general staff.
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