the study of law, obtaining permission to practice that profession in 1842, a year later forming a partnership with Nathaniel Massie, of Chillicothe. In 1844, a memorable year in the history of politics in Ohio, Mr. Galloway was elected by the legislature to the office of secretary of state, which, under the old constitution, was filled in that manner, and he at once moved to Columbus, which city he thenceforth made his home.

The slavery question was coming to the front in those days and the relations of the two parties to this question was something like the present relation of the two great parties to the currency question; there were Free-soil Whigs and pro-slavery Whigs,-“woolly-heads" and "silver greys," as they were afterward distinguished in New York. Mr. Galloway's sympathies were always with the anti-slavery wing of his party, though he preferred to make his fight for liberty inside the party rather than join the anti-slavery organizations then coming to the front. In 1848 he was a delegate to the convention held in Philadelphia which nominated Taylor and Fillmore, and a speech which he made on that occasion was long remembered for its thrilling eloquence. In 1854 Mr. Galloway represented his district in the notable thirty-fourth congress, when the reaction against the encroachments of the slave power had fully set in at the north, and the Whig party, on account of its complicity with slavery, had been practically annihilated, the great majority of the members returning from the northern states pledged to resist the further extension of the evil. Congress assembled on December 3, but the house was not organized until February 3, when Nathaniel P. Banks was chosen speaker on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot. At midnight on February 2, Mr. Galloway was aroused from his sleep and summoned to a conference which lasted until near daybreak. Mr. Banks was the first anti-slavery member ever chosen speaker of the house. Mr. Galloway took an active part in the deliberations of this congress and made at least one very trenchant speech upon the contested election case from the territory of Kansas. It was full of the keenest satire and the most vigorous argument. The political feeling in the district was strongly against Mr. Galloway during the next campaign, and upon his second candidacy for congress was defeated by Samuel S. Cox.

On July 13, 1855, a convention was held in the old Town Street Methodist church in Columbus, attended by delegates from all over Ohio, representing antiNebraska elements, and presided over by John Sherman. Mr. Galloway was one of the delegates at that convention and aided in framing the resolutions which gave the name of "Republican" to the new party.

And this date, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the adopting of the ordinance of 1787, containing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest territory, marks the birth of the Republican party. This convention nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor, and he was elected in the November following. On July 18, 1855, a meeting was held in the city hall to ratify the convention of the 13th, and the principal speakers on that occasion were Mr. Galloway, Henry C. Noble and George M. Parsons. For a few years following Mr. Galloway practiced his profession in Columbus, besides which he was actively engaged in all religious and philanthropic work, and it was less than two years after he left congress that Mr. Lincoln was engaged in his great debate with Mr. Douglas, and there is a letter from the former asking Mr. Galloway to come over to Illinois and help him in that campaign. In 1861 President Lincoln summoned him to Washington and made him offers of responsible positions, all of which he refused, contenting himself with the office of judge advocate at Camp Chase.

During the war the services rendered to the Federal cause by Mr. Galloway were many and constant, although he was unable to undertake military duty on account of his ill-health, and his eloquence contributed as much as that of any other man to inspire people with patriotic ardor and to keep the quota of Ohio always full. After the close of hostilities his professional duties and business cares kept him busy in Columbus, but he was always ready for public duties; and it is probable that few men have rendered a larger amount of unrequited service to their party than has Mr. Galloway; and as it was not unnatural that he should expect some recognition of this indebtedness, in 1871 he became a candidate for gubernatorial nomination, and his defeat in the convention was a disappointment from which he never recovered. His health almost entirely forsook him, and although he sought relief in travel it was in vain and at last he came home to die. He was at one time a member of the First Presbyterian church, in the councils of which he was an acknowledged leader, was more than once a commissioner to the general assembly, and in the final reunion of the old and new school bodies he bore an important part. But when the Westminster church was formed, he, perhaps more than anybody else, was the moving spirit, and his loyal love and service were given to that church until his death.

Mr. Galloway was deeply interested in educational matters, and when he came to Columbus in 1844, as secretary of state, that officer was also, ex officio, superintendent of schools, and he took hold of the subject of public schools with vigor and enthusiasm. The secretary of state who had preceded him