"Yes," she replied, "that was the name of the governor" (_sic_).
I said I thought things had improved since then, and that, after all,
he was but one of the hundreds of American judges, and that it was
hardly fair to condemn the whole bench because of the iniquity of one
Tammany judge.
"But," she said, "I thought all the judges in America were appointed
by Tammany. I remember my husband said, when he was trying to
recover some of the money he had put into that awful Erie, that all
the judges were appointed by Tammany."
Hoping to get a more favorable view of America if I moved out of New
York, I asked if she had travelled much in the "States."
"Far more than I wished," she dryly remarked.