When the verdict had been rendered in Stewart's favor, Starkweather strode forth from the court room in a rage, muttering fierce imprecations against a man who was capable of overmatching reason and justice by low buffoonery.
But none could be long angry at Stewart. He had no personal enmities and no enemies. Later in life he became an anti-slavery agitator and temperance lecturer pledged to total abstinence, the latter a much needed measure of reform in the case of Alvan Stewart.
FOOTNOTES:
[75] Noted Men of Otsego during the Early Years, Walter H. Bunn, Address at the Cooperstown Centennial.
[76] Random Sketches of Fifty, Sixty and More Years Ago, Richard Fry, in the Freeman's Journal, 1878.
[77] History of Otsego County, 1878, p. 283.
[78] Moved to the north of the residence, 1917.
[79] Reminiscences, Levi Beardsley, 223.
[80] Walter H. Bunn.
[81] Richard Fry.