ABSTRACT
To readers unfamiliar with Theodore Roosevelt's new appointee, the papers offered short extracts from "My Hunt after the Captain", and a brief summary of the occasions when Oliver Wendell Holmes had been wounded as a means of establishing his war veteran status. The colonists in the eighteenth century were no more able than the unionists in the nineteenth to secure the nation by waving either Common Sense or the Constitution in the faces of the British and Confederate governments, respectively. The case against this new railroad trust was rumbling along in the background as Holmes settled in to his new life in Washington. Doubtless he was aware of it, but other matters had his attention at the time. It is a devil of a job to transport all one's belongings when one is over sixty, Holmes later confided to his friend the diplomat Lewis Einstein, whose career, indeed, began as Holmes joined the Supreme Court.
