views were in direct conflict with those of the Democratic leaders of Ohio and exceedingly distasteful to their campaign managers. Mr. Pendleton's record also embarrassed them; especially his speech in the National House of Representatives, July 10th, 1861, the following extract from which was circulated with some effect against him: "If you insist upon this unnatural and unholy war" said Representative Pendleton, "prepare to wage it to the last extremity; for I warn you that every wound which you inflict upon the Southern people; every defeat to which you subject them; every degradation you may have power to make them endure, will rankle in their breasts until they wash out the last stain in your blood, or mine, or it may be in that of our children." During the progress of the campaign a great hue and cry was raised by the Democratic press against the new fraternal organzation of the old soldiers. The following editorial from the leading Bourbon organ, the Ohio Statesman of September 27th, is a fair sample of these attacks. The Grand Army of the Republic is a political organization, now in the field, holding secret meetings. Its members, sworn to vote the Republican ticket, are now clamoring for the erection of "Homes" where soldiers' children can be clothed and fed and educated. And because the last Democratic Legislature, which simply provided "Homes" for all the indigent white children, did not pass a law which would deplete the Treasury, and give the Radical appointees of Governor Hayes a chance to swindle the State, it is abused without stint by this Grand Army of Radical office-seekers. The Statesman of the morning following the election displayed the usual rooster" which it described thus: "This is the game cock, that crowed yesterday morn, And waked up the bond-holder, who is shaven and shorn." but the death of John Russell, of Champaign County, in December, left the upper branch of the General Assembly a tie. A special election was held on December 29th and Anson P. Howard, Republican, of Champaign, was chosen as Mr. Russell's successor, the Senate then standing: Republicans 19, Democrats 18. Although having a majority, the dissensions among the Republicans were such that while they elected the Clerk, the Democratic caucus nominees for President pro tem. and for Sergeant-at-Arms were both elected. In the House, an Independent Republican was elected Speaker, the Clerk was a straight Democrat, and the Speaker pro tem. and Sergeant-at-Arms straight Republicans. Another peculiarity in this House was the election of a Representative from Williams County. Previous to 1869 this County had been included in a joint district with Defiance and Paulding. But the Attorney General rendered a decision to the effect that the apportionment of 1861 was erroneous and that Williams County had been deprived of its lawful representative since then. A Representative was accordingly elected in 1869 and seated without protest. The Legislature was composed as follows: FIFTY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SENATE. John C. Lee, President. Samuel F. Hunt, President pro tem. Enos T. Hall, Clerk. Auglaize-Samuel R. Mott, Jr. Belmont-John A. Weyer. Brown-John G. Marshall and John C. Waldron. Butler-Elias H. Gaston. Carroll-William Adair. Champaign-Robert C. Fulton. Montgomery. Brown. Clarke-J. Kreider Mower. Clermont-William Shaw. Clinton-Thomas Geffs. Jackson William S. Williams. Died; Thomas L. Hughes, successor. Jefferson Samuel H. Ford. Knox --John D. Thompson. Lake --George W. Steele. Lawrence William H. Enochs. Licking--William Parr. Logan- -John A. Price. Montgomery-John Bettelton, John D. Kemp and Henry Schoenfeldt. Morgan-Richard Stanton. Morrow --Albert H. Brown. Muskingum Edward Ball and Elias Ellis. Noble-Bethuel Bates. Ottawa and Wood-William Park. Perry-Lewis Green. Pickaway-Walter T. Conklin. Portage--Reuben P. Cannon. Preble James Sayler. Richland A. C. Kile and Henry Schirck. Ross-Lewis W. Sifford. Sandusky--Hiram W. Winslow. Scioto-Elijah Glover. Seneca-John Seitz and Edson T. Stickney. Shelby-Jason McVey. Stark-Samuel C. Bowman and Ellis N. John son, Jr. Summit-Alfred Wolcott. Trumbull --William Ritezel and Joseph K. Wing. Tuscarawas Michael V. Ream and Garrett B. Smith. Union--A. James Sterling. Vinton -- Almond Soule. Warren--William W. Wilson. Washington-- John A. Brown. Wayne--Thomas W. Peckinpaugh and William R. Wilson. Williams - Schuyler E. Blakeslee. Wyandot -John Kisor. Lorain Joseph H. Dickson, and Jamin Strong. honors in 1846. Strong resigned; Herman Ely, successor. Lucas Wilson W. Griffith. Mercer and Van Wert- Daniel J. Callen, of Van Francis B. Pond, Attorney General, was born at Ellinsburg, Jefferson County, New York, August 9, 1825. He removed to Oberlin, Ohio, in 1841, where he worked his way through college and was graduated with In 1852 he was admitted. to the bar at Malta, Ohio, and three years later was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Morgan County. He served with distinction as Colonel of the Sixty-second Ohio Infantry in the Union army, and was so badly wounded at the battle of Deep River in August, 1864, as to lose the sight of his left eye, and in consequence was compelled to resign in November following. In 1867 he was elected as a Representative to the General Assembly. In 1869, and again in 1871, he was elected Attorney General of the State, filling the office with exceptional satisfaction and ability. In 1879 he was elected to the Sixty-fourth General Assembly as a Senator from the Fourteenth district, and was reelected to the Sixty-fifth Assembly in 1881. He was the author of the Pond Liquor Law," which was declared unconstitutional because of its bond feature. His death occurred at his home in Malta, Ohio, November 2, 1883. Richard R. Porter was a prosperous Stark County farmer who was elected by the Republicans as Member of the State Board of Public Works in 1869 and again in 1872. He was born in Wayne County in 1829 and taken by his father to a new home in Lawrence township, Stark County, where he always resided afterward. His death occurred in 1894. CHAPTER XVII. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1870. UTHERFORD B. HAYES was inau- of Board of Public Works, Enoch G. Collins, Rgurated Governor of Ohio, for the of Miami. second time, January 10, 1870. The inaugural exercises were again held in the rotunda of the State Capitol, and Luther Day, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as in 1868, administered the oath of office. On January 19th, the Fifty-ninth General Assembly of Ohio ratified the XVth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the vote in both branches being upon strict party lines-Republicans in the affirmative and Democrats in the negative, and was as follows: Senate-yeas 19, nays 18. House of Representatives yeas 57, nays 55. Its ratification was publicly proclaimed by Governor Hayes, in accordance with law, on March 31st, and on April 13th the colored people of the State celebrated the event by a great parade and public meeting at Columbus. A State Temperance (Prohibition) Convention was held at Columbus, Wednesday, June 1st, with Gideon T. Stewart, of Huron, as Chairman, and William B. Chadwick, of Muskingum, Secretary. There was but There was but a small attendance and only forty counties. represented, yet a full State ticket was nominated as follows: Secretary of State, Jay Odell, of Cuyahoga; Supreme Judge, Gideon T. Stewart, of Huron; Comptroller, Thomas Edmondson, of Logan; and Member On the same day the Democratic State Convention was held at the Grand Opera House, Columbus, with Lewis D. Campbell, of Butler, Chairmain, and David C. Ballentine, of Clarke, Secretary. William Heisley, of Cuyahoga, was nominated for Secretary of State, over William C. Cessna, of Hardin, on the first ballot, Emil Rothe, of Hamilton, and Charles J. Beam, of Preble, having first been withdrawn. Richard A. Harrison, of Madison, was nominated by acclamation for Supreme Judge. John H. Heaton, of Belmont, was nominated for Comptroller, over James K. Newcomer, of Lorain, on the third ballot, E. G. Donavan, of Williams, and Frank M. Casad, of Warren, having retired on the first and second. William Spencer, of Licking, was nominated for member of the Board of Public Works on the second ballot, over Benjamin P. Churchill, of Hamilton, James Kelley, of Montgomery, having retired after the first. Frank H. Hurd, of Lucas, Chairman, Ozro J. Dodds, of Hamilton, Barnabus Burns, of Richland, Thomas Beer, of Crawford, and William E. Finck, of Perry, were the most prominent members of the Committee on Resolutions and the platform was accordingly a denunciation of the protective tariff and internal revenue laws, and of "land |