ties.
Pennsylvania gave only 10,000, Ohio 17,000, and Indiana less than
1,000.

[Footnote 1194: Albert B. Paine, _Life of Thomas Nast_, p. 130.]

[Footnote 1195: McPherson, _History of Reconstruction_, p. 381.]

Though these elections presaged a Republican victory in November,
Democrats, still hopeful of success, renewed their efforts with great
energy. Blair went to the rear and Seymour took the stump. With
studied moderation Seymour had written his letter of acceptance to
catch the wavering Republican voter. He made it appear that the South
was saved from anarchy by the military, and that the North, to the
sincere regret of many Republicans and their ablest journals, was no
longer controlled by the sober judgment of the dominant party's safest
leaders. "There is hardly an able man who helped to build up the
Republican organisation," he said, "who has not within the past three
years warned it against its excesses." These men he pictured as forced
to give up their sentiments or to abandon their party, arguing that
the latter's policy must be more violent in future unless checked by a
division of political power. "Such a division," he said, adroitly
seeking to establish confidence in himself, "tends to assure the peace
and good order of society. The election of a Democratic Executive and
a majority of Democratic members to the House of Representatives would
not give to that party organisation the power to make sudden or
violent changes, but it would serve to check those extreme measures
which have been deplored by the best men of both political
organisations."[1196]

[Footnote 1196: Horatio Seymour, _Public Record_, p. 345.]

Preaching this gospel of peace Seymour passed through Western New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, attempting to
overcome the prestige of Grant's great fame, and to stem the tide of
Northern prejudice against Southern outrages. Meanwhile Roscoe
Conkling, having returned from a pleasure trip to Denver, entered the
campaign with earnestness against his brother-in-law. He desired
especially to carry Oneida County, to which he devoted his energies in
the closing days of the contest, making a schoolhouse canvass that
lifted the issue above local pride in its distinguished citizen who
headed the Democratic ticket. In going the rounds he met "Black
Paddy," a swarthy Irishman and local celebrity, who announced that he
had "turned Democrat."

"How so?" asked the Senator.

"Shure, si