. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. dfull of waving flags by day, as the people hurled backupon them their fierce resentment at the declarationof the failure of the war and at the demand for peace bycompromise with rebellion. Shermans victory atAtlanta was supplemented by Sheridans victories inthe Valley, and Sherman and Sheridan, and they alone,were the great campaigners who gave victory to Lin-
. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. dfull of waving flags by day, as the people hurled backupon them their fierce resentment at the declarationof the failure of the war and at the demand for peace bycompromise with rebellion. Shermans victory atAtlanta was supplemented by Sheridans victories inthe Valley, and Sherman and Sheridan, and they alone,were the great campaigners who gave victory to Lin-coln and to the Republican party in the great struggleof 1864. On the morning after the October election the Presi-dent telegraphed me to come to Washington, as theresult in the State was humiliating in the extreme,when Ohio and Indiana, the other October States, hadlarge Republican mxajorities. As my personal cantestfor the Legislature was ended, Lincoln asked me to joinCameron and co-operate with him in getting the Stateinto position for the November election. He realizedthe fact that the friends of McClellan were greatly en-couraged, and entirely confident that they would givethe electoral vote of Pennsylvania to the one they. /I t ^<^t^€trp^<^. ot-^tf-^^-y^ NEW YORKpublic LIBRARY A«tor, tenox v^ TMen^foundations. Of Pennsylvania 153 esteemed as Pennsylvanias great soldier. I remindedLincoln that I could not mak^ such a proposition toCameron, but that if Cameron desired it, I would bevery glad to join him and give my entire to thestruggle. The day after my return home I received aletter from Cameron requesting me to join him, thathad evidently been inspired by Lincoln himself, and Ihastened to Camerons headquarters at the GirardHouse, in Philadelphia, where I found Wayne Mac-Veagh, who had been Republican chairman the yearbefore, and had also been sent for by Cameron, andwhose political relations at that time with Cameronwere about the same as my own. Cameron
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