The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin; . ore active in Maine politics as United Statesmarshal, and also as succesor to Governor Bodwell, after the lattersdeath, when he gave the State a clean, able administration. HiramKnowlton, a prominent lawyer of Skowhegan, was another valuableassistant. Josiah H. Drummond again himself in Mr. Ham-lins behalf, and played an important part at two crises. A new fig-ure of interest was Joseph H. Manley, who came to the front in thisfight among the skillful tacticians of the day. Leander Valentine,General Samuel F. Hersey, Mark F. Wentworth, Hiram Rug
The life and times of Hannibal Hamlin; . ore active in Maine politics as United Statesmarshal, and also as succesor to Governor Bodwell, after the lattersdeath, when he gave the State a clean, able administration. HiramKnowlton, a prominent lawyer of Skowhegan, was another valuableassistant. Josiah H. Drummond again himself in Mr. Ham-lins behalf, and played an important part at two crises. A new fig-ure of interest was Joseph H. Manley, who came to the front in thisfight among the skillful tacticians of the day. Leander Valentine,General Samuel F. Hersey, Mark F. Wentworth, Hiram Ruggles, andothers of Mr. Hamlins personal friends were also of service to him. Mr. Hamlins campaign was conducted quietly; in fact, no one out-side of his personal friends was informed at first authoritatively thathe intended even to be a candidate for the Senate. There were twolong years of careful watching and measuring of men. The slightest ^ Samuel E. Spring, of Portland, and D. W. Ames, of Norridgewock, wereother valuable in Maink. i REELECTED TO THE SENATE 515 misstep might have caused infinite harm, with the power in the handsof the other side. The strain on Mr. Hamlin must have been , years afterwards, he told Governor Marble that sometimes hewould dream the 1869 fight all over, and wake up in a cold shiver,recalling a train of minor incidents which in combination won him thevictory, and which, if fate had otherwise ruled, might have defeatedhim. One man who was elected to the House from Portland, pledgedto Mr. Morrill, died before the legislature convened. Although Port-land was Mr. Fessendens stronghold, Mr. Hamlins friends, after asharp fight under the leadership of Mr. Drummond, nominated thelatter to fill the vacancy. Had there been no vacancy to fill, or hadMr. Drummond been beaten, the vote between Mr. Hamlin and would have been a tie, and probably the latter would havewon. It happened that in a town not far
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