thorough accord in our love for New England,
our firm faith in her hereditary principles, and our pride
in her noble history.

Garfield has been charged, in accepting the nomination for
the Presidency, with having been untrue to the interests
of John Sherman, who was the candidate of Ohio, and whom Garfield
had supported faithfully through every ballot. The charge
is absolutely unjust. Mr. Sherman's nomination was seen by
everybody to have been absolutely impossible long before the
final result. I was in constant consultation with leaders
of the different delegations who were trying to unite their
forces. There never was any considerable number of those
persons who thought the nomination of Mr. Sherman practicable,
notwithstanding the high personal respect in which they held
him. At the close of the thirty-fourth ballot, when Garfield
received seventeen votes, he rose, and the following incident
took place:

Mr. Garfield, of Ohio: "Mr. President, ----"
The President: "For what purpose does the gentleman rise?"
Mr. Garfield: "I rise to a question of order."
The President: "The gentleman from Ohio rises to a question
of order."
Mr. Garfield: "I challenge the correctness of the
announcement. The announcement contains votes for me.
No man has a right, without the consent of the person voted
for, to announce that person's name, and vote for him, in
this convention. Such consent I have not given."
The President: "The gentleman from Ohio is not stating
a question of order. He will resume his seat. No
person having received a majority of the votes cast, another
ballot will be taken. The Clerk will call the roll."

This verbatim report is absolutely correct, except that where
there is a period at the end of Mr. Garfield's last sentence
there should be a dash, indicating that the sentence was not
finished. I recollect the incident perfectly. I interrupted
him in the middle of his sentence. I was terribly afraid that
he would say something that would make his nomination impossible,
or his acceptance impossible, if it were made. I do not believe
it ever happened before that anybody who attempted to decline
the Presidency of the United States was to be prevented by
a point of order, or that such a thing will ever happen again.

During the thirtieth ballot a vote was cast by a delegate
from the Territory of Wyoming for General Philip H. Sheridan.
General Sheridan, who was upon