The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e effect to preventthe raising of troops, to encourage desertions fromthe army, and to leave the rebellion without an ade-quate military force to suppress it. The exilesparty iu Oh
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e effect to preventthe raising of troops, to encourage desertions fromthe army, and to leave the rebellion without an ade-quate military force to suppress it. The exilesparty iu Ohio nominated him June 11th for governorof Ohio. He watched the canvass from Windsor,opposite Detroit, and was barely restrained by friendsfrom returning to take part in it. The fate of theadministration seemed now in the balance; Lincolnsaid to Wendell Phillips: Dont ask me to do any-thing till after the Ohio election. That election,with its majority of 100,000 against Vallandigham,ended his political importance; his return in June, 1864, attracted far less attention than his banishment,nor was he again disturbed. He accepted the situa-tion, and took part some years later in conciliatorymeasures. In a murder trial at Lebanon, 0., June16,1871, he attempted to show how the shooting hadbeen done; the pistol was accidentally discharged,and he fell mortally wounded, dying the next day. 146 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA. /:;?^3-^^.«:5?£kl^^;-- HOUSTON, Henry Howard, was born nearWrightsville, York county, Pa., October, 1820. Hisancestors traced their lineage back into the chival-rous days of Scotland, when the destinies of thatcountry were dominated by the tyrannical EdwardI. of England. The clan Houston was prominent inthe eventful days of Wallace,famous in Scottish history. Theyounger sons of the original fam-ily early in the seventeenth cen-tury emigrated to the north ofIreland, and from thence a por-tion of the family came to Penn-sylvania between 1725 and 1730and settled in Lancast
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