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My articles in the &quot;Atlantic Monthly.&quot; President Buchanan, John Brown, 

 Stephen A. Douglas, and others. The Chicago Convention. Nomination of 

 Lincoln. Disappointment of my New York friends. Speeches by Carl 

 Schurz. Election of Lincoln. Beginnings of Civil War. My advice to stu 

 dents. Reverses ; Bull Bun. George Sumner s view. Preparation for the 

 conflict. Depth of feeling. Pouring out of my students into the army. 

 Kirby Smith. Conduct of the British Government. Break in my health. 

 Thurlow Weed s advice to me. My work in London. Discouragements 

 there. My published answer to Dr. Russell. Experiences in Ireland and 

 France. My horror of the French Emperor. Effort to influence opinion in 

 Germany. William Walton Murphy ; his interview with Baron Rothschild. 

 Fourth of July celebration at Heidelberg in 1863. Turning of the contest in 

 favor of the United States. My election to the Senate of the State of New 

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CHAPTER VI. SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY 1864-1865 



My arrival at Albany as State Senator. My unfitness. Efforts to become 

 acquainted with State questions. New acquaintances. Governor Horatio 

 Seymour, Charles James Folger, Ezra Cornell, and others on the Republican 

 side; Henry C. Murphy and Thomas C. Fields on the Democratic side. 

 Daniel Manning. Position assigned me on committees. My maiden speech. 

 Relations with Governor Seymour. My chairmanship of the Committee on 

 Education. The Morrill Act of 1862. Mr. Cornell and myself at loggerheads. 

 Codification of the Educational Laws. State Normal School Bill. Special 

 Committee on the New York Health Department. Revelations made to the 

 Committee. The Ward s Island matter. Last great effort of the State in 

 behalf of the Union. The Bounty Bill. Opposition of Horace Greeley to it. 

 Embarrassment caused by him at that period. Senator Allaben s speech 

 against the Bounty Bill. His reference to French Asslgnats; my answer; 

 results ; later development of this speech into a political pamphlet on &quot; Paper 

 Money Inflation in France.&quot; Baltimore Convention of 1864; its curious 

 characteristics ; impression made upon me by it. Breckinridge, Curtis, and 

 Raymond. Renomination of Lincoln ; my meeting him at the White House. 

 Sundry peculiarities then revealed by him. His election 100 



CHAPTER VII. SENATORSHIP AT ALBANY 1865-1867 



My second year in the State Senate. Struggle for the Charter of Cornell 

 University. News of Lee s surrender. Assassination of Lincoln. Service 

 over his remains at the Capitol in Albany. My address. Question of my 

 renomination. Elements against me ; the Tammany influence ; sundry 

 priests in New York, and clergymen throughout the State. Senatorial con 

 vention ; David J. Mitchell ; my renomination and election. My third year 

 of service, 1866. Speech on the Health Department in New York ; monstrous 

 iniquities in that Department ; success in replacing it with a better system. 

 My Phi Beta Kappa address at Yale ; its purpose. My election to a Professor 

 ship at Yale ; reasons for declining it. State Senate sits as Court to try a 

 judge ; his offense ; pathetic complications ; his removal from office. Arrival 

 of President Johnson, Secretary Seward, General Grant, and Admiral Farra- 

 gut in Albany; their reception by the Governor and Senate; impressions 

 made on me thereby ; part taken by Governor Fenton and Secretary Seward; 

 Judge Folger s remark to me. Ingratitude of the State thus far to its two 

 greatest Governors, DeWitt Clinton and Seward 123 



