Excerpt from Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 5: October 1910 July 1911
There were some great speeches made before that Conven tion, dealing with the character of the federal Union, the rela tions of the respective States thereto, and the lawful right of one of them without the consent of others to withdraw, ad libitum, from the Union. Judge Gamble never made a set speech. He disliked mere meretricious display, in which self is never lost sight of He was, indeed, what Rufus Choate termed a thing most rare, a reasonable, modest, learned man. He was not an orator, in the popular sense. His eloquence was that masterful logic, deep, sincere earnestness, that overwhelms sophistry and convinces intelligent judg ment. No art of the adversary could deflect him from the ob jective point under consideration. He stuck with pertinaceous energy to the facts and law that controlled, and struck hard at the gnarled knots in the way.
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