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FREMoNT's CAREER.
No defeated aspirant for the presidency
ever had a more checkered after-career
than that of John c. Fremont. Buchanan's
rival in 1856. His military career ended In
misfortune and personal chagrin. and the
ill-will which he bore Lincoln led him, in
1854. to accept a nomination for President
rendered by a so-called party which met
In convention in Cleveland. However, Ere
monts good sense was sufficient 70 teach
him that his candidacy could only imperii
the Union cause, and in September. 1864, he
announced his withdrawal from the field,
not to aid in the triumph Of Mr.. Lincoln,
but to do my part toward defeating the
election of the Democratic candidate"
After the war Fremont plunged into busi-
ness enterprises, but he was not a good
~hnancier, and few of the argosies which
he put afioat ever came back to him. He
died in poverty in New York city eight
years ago.
Stewards presidential ambitions vanished
when the nomination which he coveted
went to Lincoln, and Breckenridge and
Douglas were the other wrecks left on the
shore by the political storm of 1860. Dur
ing the war the former commanded a con-
federate army In the field and served for
a time in Davis's Cabinet, but his heart was
never in the Confederate. movement, and
nv Al was ITO AOit thot Aio
career was ended. He went back to Ken
lucky, expecting to take up the practice
of law. but did not live long after he re-
tired to private life. Douglas. when the
war opened, was prompt and o~utspoken in
support Of the Union, and had he lived he
would probably have been one of Lincoln's
ailing for more than a year, and the mighty
strain of the anvass of 1860. coupled with
undermined his constitution. He sank
rapidly, and when it was evident that his
day was ending he sent for his sister to
come and nurse him during his last hours.
After his death the manifestations of re-
spect revealed the mighty hold which he
had upon his party and the admiration. his
because of his splendid stand for the Union.
No part. of Douglass life so well became
him as It's close.
DOWN TO LATER YEARS.
After the campaign of 1864 General Nc
Clellan emerged but once from his self
sought retirement. In 1877 he was NOM
mated for Governor by the New Jersey
Democrats and elected. This was the only
political office he ever held. and when his
term was over he returned to his pleasant
home in Orange, where the balance of his
life was spent. He died suddenly, without
warning Of illness. some ten years ago.
Horatio Seymour survived for a dozen
years or more his crushing defeat by Grant
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part in public affairs. Horace Greeley died
less than a month after the election of
1872. His death. however, was not due to
disappointment at his failure to reach the
presidency-he had known for weeks that
the tide had set strongly against him-but
to the exhaustion of the campaign, fol-
lowed as il was by the tender nursing or
his wife. who fell i'll and died q. few weeks
before election day. The strain was too
great. Insomnia seized him with all its
horrors, and it seemed to those who knew
him as II he, realizing that he had dan
g~erously strained his physical and mental
powers. gave up at once without making a
struggle for life.
Tilden in 1876 accepted the loss Of the
presidency with perfect composure. If he
had personal diSappointments or nourished
resentment no one knew ii. Within a month
through an important business enterprise
which added millions to his already large
fortune. a little later he ought a beauti-
full place on the Hudson, and, dividing his
time between that and his city home in
Gramercy Park, spent his last years in
peace and serenity. surrounded by books
and by men of the highest cultivation
General Hancock was never heard TO re-
pine of his defeat by Garfield in 1880. and
Blaine, within a week of his defeat four
years later, was hard at work on the Sec
ond volume Of his Twenty Years of Con-
at the outcome of the canvass, which had
brought him within one thousand votes of
the presidency. Cleveland, as soon as his
first term in the White House was ended,
settled dow to the practice of his profess
sion in New York city, and, although he
permitted his labors to be broken in upon
by political inclination and the desire for a
during the ensuing four years than at any
other period Of his life. While in 1893 Har-
rison, following Cleveland's example, at
once went back to his law books and to his
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