a member of
both House and Senate at Richmond. He was a good debater, of what is
known as the Southern type; logical, direct, forcible, withal showing
certain peculiarities of style and phrase characteristic of graduates
from Transylvania University.

--Zebulon B. Vance was born and reared in Buncombe County, North
Carolina. He belonged originally to that conservative class of
Southern Whigs whose devotion to the Union was considered steadfast
and immovable. He was a representative in Congress during Mr.
Buchanan's Administration, adhering to the remnant of the Whig party,
which went under the name of "American" in the South. He joined the
Confederate Army immediately after the war began, and a year later was
elected Governor of his State. He became extensively known through the
North, first by the rumors of his disagreements with Jefferson Davis
during the war, and afterwards by Horace Greeley's repeated reference,
in the campaign of 1872, to his "political disabilities" as an
illustration of Republican bigotry. He has been noted as a stump-speaker
and as an advocate. Since the war he has been so pronounced a partisan
as in some degree to lessen the genial humor which had always been
one of his leading personal traits.

--John S. Williams of Kentucky succeeded Thomas C. McCreery in the
Senate. He had gained much credit when only twenty-seven years of age
as Colonel of a Kentucky regiment in the Mexican war; but when the
rebellion broke out he joined the Confederates and served as a
Brigadier-General in the army of General Joseph E. Johnston. It was
said of him, as of many other Southern men of character and bravery,
that they had gallantly borne the flag of the Union in foreign lands
and the flag of Disunion at home. The genial nature of General
Williams won for him in Congress many friends beyond the line of his
own party.

Mr. Chandler of Michigan succeeded Mr. Delano as Secretary of the
Interior in the Cabinet of President Grant in the autumn of 1875, a
few months after his retirement from the Senate. He returned to the
Senate in less than two years from the close of President Grant's
Administration. Mr. Christiancy resigned to accept the mission to
Peru, and Mr. Chandler resumed his old seat on the 22d of February,
1879. He exhibited his full strength, physically and mentally, taking
active part at once in the debates, and in the extra session of March,
1879, assuming to a large extent the lead. I