Sprague of Rhode Island, Stewart of Nevada, Sumner of Massachusetts,
Thayer of Nebraska, Tipton of Nebraska, Wade of Ohio, Willey of West
Virginia, Williams of Oregon, Wilson of Massachusetts, and Yates of
Illinois.--35.

NOT GUILTY.--Messrs. _Bayard_ of Delaware, _Buckalew_ of Pennsylvania,
_Davis_ of Kentucky, DIXON of Connecticut, DOOLITTLE of Wisconsin,
Fessenden of Maine, Fowler of Tennessee, Grimes of Iowa, Henderson of
Missouri, _Hendricks_ of Indiana, _Johnson_ of Maryland, _McCreery_ of
Kentucky, NORTON of Minnesota, PATTERSON of Tennessee, Ross of Kansas,
_Saulsbury_ of Delaware, Trumbull of Illinois, Van Winkle of West
Virginia, and _Vickers_ of Maryland.--19.]

CHAPTER XV.

The stirring events which preceded the Presidential campaign of 1868
brought both parties to that contest with aroused feeling and earnest
purpose. The passionate struggle of which President Johnson was the
centre, had inspired the Republicans with an ardor and a resolution
scarcely surpassed during the intense period of the war. The failure,
on the 16th of May, to find the President guilty as charged in the
Eleventh Article of Impeachment, was received by the public as a
general acquittal, without waiting for the vote of the 26th. A large
proportion of the delegates to the Republican National Convention which
met at Chicago on the 20th of May, gathered under the influence of
keen disappointment at the President's escape from what they believed
to be merited punishment. Though baffled in their hope of deposing
the man whom they regarded with the resentment that always follows the
political apostate, they were none the less animated by the high spirit
which springs from conscious strength and power. They were the
representatives of an aggressive and triumphant party, and felt that
though suffering an unexpected chagrin they were moving forward with
certainty to a new and brilliant victory. The chief work of the
Convention was determined in advance. The selection of General Grant
as the candidate for the Presidency had for months been clearly
foreshadowed and universally accepted by the Republican party. At an
earlier stage there had been an effort to direct public thought towards
some candidate who was more distinctively a party chief, and who held
more pronounced political views; but public sentiment pointed so
unmistakably and irresistibly to General Grant that this effort was
found to be hopeless and was speedily abandoned.