The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin; . ner, Fessenden, Trumbull,and others, though the first four of this picturesque group were themost conspicuous members who adjusted themselves successfully tothe new issues, and remained in touch with their party. It was aperiod of new issues and new leaders. Roscoe Conkling, John Sher-man, Justin S. Morrill, George F. Edmunds, Henry B. Anthony,Matthew H. Carpenter, Reuben E. Fenton, John A. Logan, WilliamWindom, Oliver P. Morton, Alexander Ramsey, and others, who roseto distinction in the Senate during this period, constituted a strongand interesting fo
The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin; . ner, Fessenden, Trumbull,and others, though the first four of this picturesque group were themost conspicuous members who adjusted themselves successfully tothe new issues, and remained in touch with their party. It was aperiod of new issues and new leaders. Roscoe Conkling, John Sher-man, Justin S. Morrill, George F. Edmunds, Henry B. Anthony,Matthew H. Carpenter, Reuben E. Fenton, John A. Logan, WilliamWindom, Oliver P. Morton, Alexander Ramsey, and others, who roseto distinction in the Senate during this period, constituted a strongand interesting force of Republicans. Allen G. Thurman was themost notable addition to the Democratic side of the House, and lentstrength both to the Senate and his party. Another Democrat ofdistinction was Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. The temporarydisappearance of the old Southern regime was marked in the appear-ance of Frederick A. Sawyer, William Pitt Kellogg, Adelbert Ames, This is the essence of Senator Hamlins eulogy on Grant, August, 1SS5. /^^ \. .?ff L Da--^^^ -^W, ^- >^:-:4 !_^^S5^^ ? Associates in (oxoress. THE GRANT ADMINISTRATIONS 321 and other men of Northern birth m its place. The presence of HiramR. Revels, a colored man, in the place of Jefferson Davis, possessed asignificance which would be difficult to find in the downfall of thearistocracy in the French Revolution. The succession of William , of Connecticut, to a senator who supported Johnsonwas another visible proof of the extinction of the anomalous Johnsonparty. Mr. Hamlin believed that the Senate was improved rather thanweakened by these changes. He was a practical optimist. He be-lieved that the world grew better as it grew older, and he believed,too, that every age produced its strong men to solve its he felt himself growing old he voluntarily retired from publiclife in full faith that young men could carry on the work of the na-tion. He lived in the present, never in the past. He di
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