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us." No doubt this feeling entered into the minds of a 

 large number of delegates and conduced to the result. 



A few weeks afterward Mr. Fassett came to Ithaca. I 

 had the pleasure of presiding and speaking at the public 

 meeting which he addressed, and of entertaining him at 

 my house. He was in every way worthy of the position 

 to which he had been nominated, but, unfortunately, was 

 not elected. 



Having made one or two speeches in this campaign, I 

 turned to more congenial work, and in the early spring 

 of the following year (February 12 to May 16, 1892) ac- 

 cepted an election as non-resident professor at Stanford 

 University in California, my duty being to deliver a 

 course of twenty lectures upon ( ' The Causes of the French 

 Kevolution. ' ' Just as I was about to start, Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie very kindly invited me to go as his guest in his 

 own car and with a delightful party. There were eight of 

 us four ladies and four gentlemen. We went by way of 

 Washington, Chattanooga, and New Orleans, stopping at 

 each place, and meeting many leading men; then to the 

 city of Mexico, where we were presented to Porfirio Diaz, 

 the president of that republic, who seemed to be a man of 

 great shrewdness and strength. I recall here the fact that 

 the room in which he received us was hung round with 

 satin coverings, on which, as the only ornament, were the 

 crown and cipher of Diaz' unfortunate predecessor, the 

 Emperor Maximilian. Thence we went to California, and 

 zigzag along the Pacific coast to Tacoma and Seattle; 

 then through the Rocky Mountains to Salt Lake City, 

 meeting everywhere interesting men and things, until at 

 Denver I left the party and went back to give my lectures 

 at Stanford. 



Returning to Cornell University in the early summer, 

 I found myself in the midst of my books and happy in 

 resuming my work. But now, July 21, 1892, came my 

 nomination by President Harrison to the position of en- 

 voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at St. 

 Petersburg. On thinking the matter over, it seemed to me 



