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to care for him; I was surprised at the small number 

 present, and at the languid interest even of these. 



Among my most delightful reminiscences of this period 

 are my walks and talks with my old Yale and Paris stu 

 dent friend of nearly forty years before, Randall Gib 

 son, who, having been a general in the Confederate ser 

 vice, was now a United States senator from Louisiana. 

 Eevisiting our old haunts, especially the Sorbonne, the 

 Pantheon, St. Sulpice, and other monuments of the Latin 

 Quarter, we spoke much of days gone by, he giving me 

 most interesting reminiscences of our Civil War period 

 as seen from the Southern side. One or two of the things 

 he told me are especially fastened in my mind. The first 

 was that as he sat with other officers over the camp-fire 

 night after night, discussing the war and their hopes 

 regarding the future, all agreed that when the Confed 

 eracy obtained its independence there should be no 

 * right of secession ? in it. But what interested me most 

 was the fact that he, a Democratic senator of the United 

 States, absolutely detested Thomas Jefferson, and, above 

 all things, for the reason that he considered Jefferson 

 the real source of the extreme doctrine of State sov 

 ereignty. Gibson was a typical Kentucky Whig who, in 

 the Civil War, went with the South from the force of 

 family connections, friendships, social relations, and the 

 like, but who remained, in his heart of hearts, from first 

 to last, deeply attached to the Union. 



Leaving Paris, we went together to Homburg, and 

 there met Mr. Henry S. Sanf ord, our minister at Belgium 

 during the Civil War, one of Secretary Seward s fore 

 most agents on the European continent at that period. 

 His accounts of matters at that time, especially of the 

 doings of sundry emissaries of the United States, were 

 all of them interesting, and some of them exceedingly 

 amusing. At Homburg, too, I found my successor in 

 the legation at Berlin, Mr. Pendleton, who, though his 

 mind remained clear, was slowly dying of paralysis. 



Thence with Gibson and Sanford down the Rhine to 



