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under the name of Mars and then again as Enyalyon, so Williams and Breckinridge, under various appellations, dealt death and destruction to the enemies of the South. It was difficult, fellow-citizens, to shake my confidence in the ultimate success of the Confederacy; I believed and hoped to the last, but if I had known what these two gentlemen had done, were doing, and would do if opportunity permitted, I should not have credited the news of Confederate surrender even when announced by Lee."

He said that he also had burned with a desire for military glory at the very time that Colonel Breckinridge had joined the Confederate army, and the real reason why Colonel Breckinridge and not he had become a hero, was to be found in a difference in horse-flesh. "We started for the Confederacy," he said, "at the same date. He was mounted on a superb thoroughbred mare and distanced all pursuit. I was riding a wind-galled, frost-bitten pony. A big Michigan infantry man met me in the pike. I was foolish enough to think the pony could outrun him and tried to escape. In three strides he overtook me, caught the pony by the tail and me by the collar and I was sent to Camp Chase. Had I been on the mare and Colonel Breckinridge on the pony, how unlike would be now our respective political fortunes: it might even, indeed, have wrought some difference in the fate of the Confederacy. As it is, he stands here the peer of Cerro Gordo Saltville Williams; if he doesn't get the office he now seeks, he will get some other, while I shall be lucky if I can pick up a few crumbs after all the Confederates have eaten."

Marshall proceeded in this strain for more than an hour, and if his real object was " pacification " he certainly accomplished it. There was never a crowd, perhaps, so absolutely converted from a temper in which bloodshed had seemed almost inevitable to perfect good humour.

At one time the people of the Northern as well as those of the Southern states were wont to say and, perhaps, inclined to believe that they little resembled one another, each ascribing to themselves peculiar and supposedly superior virtues claimed to be inherent or hereditary. They spoke of the matter as if they had come of widely different stocks, and seemed to think

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