For a long time he could not reconcile himself to support the ticket.

Horace White and I addressed ourselves to the task of "fetching him into camp"-- there being in point of fact nowhere else for him to go--though we had to get up what was called The Fifth Avenue Conference to make a bridge.
Truth to say, Schurz never wholly adjusted himself to political conditions in the United States.

He once said to me in one of the querulous moods that sometimes overcame him: "If I should live a hundred years my enemies would still call me a--Dutchman!" It was Schurz, as I have said, who brought Lamar and me together.

The Mississippian had been a Secession Member of Congress when I was a Unionist scribe in the reporters' gallery.

I was a furious partisan in those days and disliked the Secessionists intensely.