ton, he
said, in a deprecatory tone: "These Democrats undertake to discuss
the financial question. They oughtn't to do that. They can't
possibly understand it. The Lord's truth is, fellow-citizens, _it
is about all we Republicans can do to understand that question!"_

He was a gallant soldier in the Mexican and in the great Civil War,
and in the latter achieved distinction as a commanding officer.
With Weldon, Ewing, McNulta, Fifer, Rowell, and others as listeners,
he once graphically described the first battle in which he was
engaged. Turning to his old-time comrade, McNulta, he said: "There
is one supreme moment in the experience of a soldier that is
absolutely ecstatic!" "That," quickly replied McNulta, "is the very
moment when he gets into battle."

"No, damn it," said Oglesby, _"it is the very moment he gets out!"_

In his early manhood, Oglesby spent some years abroad. His pilgrimage
extended even to Egypt, up the Nile, and to the Holy Land.

Few persons at the time having visited the Orient, Oglesby's
descriptions of the wonders of the far-off countries were listened
to with the deepest interest. With both memory and imagination in
their prime, it can easily be believed that those wonders of the
Orient lost nothing by his description. Soon after his return
he lectured in Bloomington. The audience were delighted, especially
with his description of the Pyramids.

None of us had ever before seen or heard a man who had actually,
with his own eyes, beheld these wonders of the ages. Near the
close of his lecture, and just after he had suggested the probability
of Abraham and Sarah having taken in the Pyramids on their wedding
trip, some one in the audience inquired;

"Who built the Pyramids?"

"Oh, damn it," quickly replied the orator, "I don't know who built
them; _I asked everybody I saw in Egypt and none of them knew!"_

For much that is of interest in the career of Governor Oglesby I
am indebted to his honored successor in office, my neighbor and
friend, Hon. Joseph W. Fifer--than whom the country has had no
braver soldier and the State no abler Chief Executive.

XXXVIII
THE ONE ENEMY

CALEB CUSHING'S POLITICAL CAREER--HIS GREAT AMBITION A SEAT UPON
THE SUPREME BENCH--HIS APPOINTMENT THERETO--HIS ONE ENEMY DEFEATS HIS
CONFIRMATION.

_"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."_

The truth of the above couplet has rar