But Mr. Bayard's silence
was unbroken even by the thunders of Gettysburg almost within sound of
his home, or by the closing and complete triumph of the National arms.
He had spoken words of sympathy and encouragement to the enemies of the
Union. He never uttered a word of cheer for its friends.(1)

The organization of Governor Fenton's friends in New York, which had
failed to secure him the nomination for Vice-President at the Chicago
Convention, was strong enough to elect him to the Senate, even against
so worthy a competitor as Governor Morgan, who had the advantage of
being in the seat. It was a strong attestation of Mr. Fenton's
strength in his own State.--William A. Buckingham, whose distinction
as War Governor of Connecticut reached far beyond the limits of his
State, was now promoted to a seat in the Senate.--Daniel D. Pratt,
afterwards Commissioner of Internal Revenue, appeared from Indiana as
the successor of Thomas A. Hendricks.--John Scott, whose father had
been a representative in Congress, succeeded Mr. Buckalew as senator
from Pennsylvania. Mr. Scott had taken little part in politics, and
had been altogether devoted to his profession as a lawyer; but his
service in the Senate was distinguished by intelligence and fidelity.
No man wrought so effectively in exposing the condemnation of public
opinion the evil work of the Ku-Klux organizations in the South. At
the close of his term he returned to the practice of law, and was
honored by the appointment of chief solicitor to one of the largest
corporations in the world--the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.--Thomas
C. McCreery took his seat as senator from Kentucky. Originally a
lawyer, he had for many years devoted his attention to farming. He had
acquired prominence in his party by carefully preparing and accurately
committing to memory a political oration each year, which he delivered
at the Democratic State Convention. He was an upright, good-natured
man, with extreme Democratic views always amiably expressed.--John P.
Stockton, who was deprived of his seat three years before under
circumstances which seemed to impose a hardship upon him, now entered
with undisputed credentials from New Jersey.

The senators first admitted from the reconstructed States were about
equally divided between native Southerners and those who had gone from
the North at the close of the war; but all were Republicans except one
in Virginia and one in Georgia. John F. Lewis an