Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Luther Martin
M.E. Bradford, A Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (Marlborough: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982), p. 116 (on Luther Martin, of Baltimore, Maryland):
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His figure in old-fashioned dress became a familiar sight on the streets of that thriving port city. Bemused in thought or buried in a bookâso preoccupied and near-sighted that, according to legend, on one occasion when he accidentally bumped into a cow that had wandered onto Baltimore Street, he tipped his hat, apologized, and continued on his way. Martin's arguments in the courts even at this early date became famous for their orotundity, antiquarian scholarship, otiose circumambient development, and irresistible conclusion.
