rmont as the successor Justin S. Morrill.--Henry L. Cake, an
enthusiastic representative of the Pennsylvania Germans and of the
anthracite-coal minters, came from the Schuylkill district.--Green
B. Raum, afterward for a considerable period Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, entered from Illinois.--William A. Pile and Carman A. Newcomb,
two active and earnest young Republicans, came as representatives of
the city of St. Louis.

Benjamin F. Butler now took his seat in Congress for the first time.
He was sent from a Massachusetts district of which he was not a
resident, thus breaking a long established and approved custom.
Though his military career had been the subject of adverse and bitter
criticism, it had been marked by certain features which pleased the
people, and he came out of the war with an extraordinary popularity in
the loyal States. He engaged at once in political strife. During the
canvass against the President's policy in 1866 he went through the
country, it may with truth be said, at the head of a triumphal
procession. He was received everywhere with a remarkable display of
enthusiasm, and was fortunate in commending himself to the good will of
the most radical section of the Republican party. He naturally
affiliated with that side because it never was General Butler's habit
to be moderate in the advocacy of any public policy. When he was a
Democrat he sustained the extreme Southern wing of the party with all
his force and zeal; and when the course of his political associates
pointed to a disruption of the Government he turned upon them with
savage hostility, declared without hesitation for the support of the
Union, offered his services as a soldier, and was constantly in the
vanguard of those who demanded the most aggressive and most destructive
measures in the prosecution of the war. He entered Congress,
therefore, with apparent advantages and in the full maturity of his
powers, at forty-nine years of age.

--General Butler had long been regarded as a powerful antagonist at the
bar and he fully maintained his reputation in the parliamentary
conflicts in which he became at once involved. He exhibited an
extraordinary capacity for agitation, possessing in a high degree what
John Randolph described as the "talent for turbulence." His mind was
never at rest. While not appearing to seek controversies, he possessed
a singular power of throwing the House into turmoil and disputation.
The stormier the s