60.
Elisha Whittlesey, of Ohio, who after sixteen years of Congressional
service became an auditor, and was known as "the Watch Dog of the
Treasury." Tom Corwin, of the same State, with a portly figure,
swarthy complexion, and wonderful facial expression, and an
inexhaustible flow of wit, who was not a buffoon, but a gentleman
whose humor was natural, racy, and chaste. Gulian C. Verplanck
and Thomas J. Oakley, two members of the New York bar, who represented
that city, were statesmen rather than politicians. John Chambers,
of Kentucky, a gigantic economist, was ever ready to reform small
expenditures and willing to overlook large ones. And then there
was the ponderous Dixon H. Lewis, of Alabama, the largest man who
ever occupied a seat in Congress--so large that chairs had to be
made expressly for his use.

General James Findlay, who had served creditably in the War of
1812, was a Jackson Democratic Representative in the days of the
contest between "Old Hickory" and "Biddle's Bank." He was a type
of a gentleman of the old school, and he recalled Washington Irving's
picture of the master of Bracebridge Hall. The bluff and hearty
manner, the corpulent person, and the open countenance of the
General, his dress of the aristocratic blue and buff, and his gold-
headed cane, all tallied with the descriptions of the English
country gentleman of the olden time. He was greatly beloved in
Ohio, and several anecdotes are told of his kindness in enforcing
the claims of the United States, when he was Receiver of the District
Land Office, for lands sold on credit, as was the custom in those
days. Upon one occasion there had been a time of general tightness
in money matters, and many farms in the region northeast of Cincinnati
but partly paid for were forfeited to the Government. In the
discharge of his official duty General Findlay attended at the
place of sale. He learned, soon after his arrival there, that many
speculators were present prepared to purchase these lands. Mounting
a stump, he opened the sale. He designated the lands forfeited,
and said that he was there to offer them to the highest bidder.
He said that the original purchasers were honest men, but that in
consequence of the hard times they had failed to meet their
engagements. It was hard, thus to be forced from their homes
already partly paid for. But the law was imperative, and the lands
must be offered. "And now," continued he, "I trust that there is