d, and
participated in the discussions. I taught public school "_a
quarter_," the winter of 1852-53, at the Black-Horse tavern
schoolhouse, on Donnels Creek, for sixty dollars pay.

I attended Antioch College (1854-55) in Horace Mann's time, for
less than a year, reciting in classes in geometry, higher algebra,
English grammar, rhetoric, etc., pursuing no regular course, and
part of the time taking special lessons, and while there actively
participated in a small debating club, to which some men still
living and of high eminence belonged. One member only of the club
has, so far, died upon the gallows. This was Edwin Coppoc, who
was hanged with John Brown in December, 1859.

In the exciting Presidential campaign of 1856 (though not old enough
to vote) I made, in Clark and Greene Counties, Ohio, above fifty
campaign speeches for Fremont, the excitement being so high that
mobbing or egging was not uncommon. The pro-slavery people called
Fremont's supporters _abolitionists_--the most opprobrious name
they conceived they could use. Colonel Wm. S. Furay (now of
Columbus, Ohio), of about my age, also made many speeches in the
same campaign, and we were joint recipients of at least one _egging_,
at Clifton, Ohio.

In the midst of my farm work and duties, by employing room hours,
evenings, rainy days, etc., I could make much progress in studies,
and besides this I did a little fishing in the season, and some
hunting with a rifle, in the use of which I was skillful in killing
game. Hunting became almost a passion, hence had to be wholly
given up.

At the close of the 1856 Presidential campaign, my mother having,
in consequence of my purpose to practise law, removed from the farm
to Yellow Springs, Ohio, I became a resident of Springfield, and
there pursued, regularly, in Anthony & Goode's office, the study
of law.

Before this I had ventured to try a few law cases before justices
of the peace, both in the country, in villages, and in the city,
and I had some professional triumphs, occasionally over a regular
attorney, but more commonly meeting the "pettifogger," who was of
a class once common, and not to be despised as "rough and tumble,"
_ad captandum_, advocates in justices' courts. They often knew
some crude law, and they never knew enough to concede a point or
that they were wrong.

My studies went on in much the usual way until I was admitted to
the bar, January 12, 1858, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Col