and gave him making fifteen states in all that went for him giving him general had only in and lo va just carrying the two list named he was veiy close by in virginia and but can them by as there was no in new and were all the states that went strongly for him making fifteen states in all casting general received the vote recollections of a busy life of every state north and west of the and � general had a of the popular vote in the free and a small majority of that cast in the slave states seven of the and eight of the latter in the entire union the popular vote stood van south choosing her by the no return of her popular vote can be given in the event i think the of those who had and those who opposed general s as the candidate for president were both realized he proved an honest wise fearless public servant � true to his convictions but yielding all proper and deference to those whose liad placed him in the white house none more keenly regretted his sudden death � which occurred on tlie th of july after he been sixteen months president � than those who had most resisted his yet the fact remains that the party was by that and lost ground thereby in the confidence of the masses we had our great struggle of on well defined important principles of national policy whereon we were at odds witli our we had them to meet us and had met them in face discussion of our respective views and had shown the people how and why their personal prosperity and well being would be promoted by the triumph of our ideas our measures beaten in the declared result the party never stood so strong in the popular conviction that its aims were just and its policy beneficent as at the close of tlie of � as was evinced in our carrying the next house of representatives on the other hand our success in was the triumph of general not of our principles it showed that a majority ed general to general for president tliat was all we had fought the contest not on our principles but on our hence many who accepted our were ent or averse to our i principles and the very house elected with or under chose a speaker and was organized to oppose his administration the could not say with another such victory and i am ruined this one to and destroy their organization they were at once triumphant and undone i think i never saw general save for a moment at the ball on the after his accession to the i was never introduced and never wrote to him and while i ultimately supported and for him i did not hurry myself to secure his election in fact that of was my easiest and least anxious since when a resolve opposing the was laid on the table at the that him i felt that my zeal my enthusiasm for the cause was also laid there yet i have little faith in third party movements � which are generally impelled by an purpose to help one of the leading parties by drawing off from the other general at length himself a but not an and i believe tliat was about literal truth zealous apprehended tliat he might if elected shrink from the appointed by and but after giving liim a trial they were constrained to admit that he turned out better than had been expected ho was a man of little education or literary culture but of signal good sense coolness and freedom from prejudice few trained and polished have proved of civil power this rough old soldier whose life had been largely passed in camp and on the rude of civilization or in savage w far beyond it general died too soon for his country s good but not till he had proved himself a wise and good ruler if not even a great one xxvi � mile age in our state election for david s had been chosen to represent the upper district of our city in the by a small majority over colonel james tliat majority was obtained by bringing oyer from s island and in the ward the male in the � not merely those who had resided in our district before they honored our city by to live at her expense but those who had been gathered in from other districts colonel objected to this as a joke too far and on his the return of mr the house sustained the objection and without him by the people were required to vote again by tliis time it was � the year of general s election colonel confidently expected to be tlie candidate not merely for the but for the the however were fixed for mr james editor of the express who was duly for the while colonel was the for the remaining ninety days at per day of the he declined indignantly whereupon that end of a was to me i at first resolved to decline also � not seeing how to leave my business so for a three months at washington but the was so kindly pressed upon me with such apparently reasons that i accepted it j � i g s t v w� t � � � there was never any doubt of the result a soon called on me to be from mr to inquire as to what should be done to secure our election tell mr i responded that we have only to keep so still that no particular attention will be called to us and general will carry us both in there are not enough in the district who care about either of us one way or the other to swamp the majority that the cannot fail to receive the returns 