I have written him to tell him so and urge it upon him.

In default of him the time of you people has come." He subsequently showed me this letter and General Sherman's reply.

My recollection is that the General declared that he would not take the presidency if it were offered him, earnestly invoking Mr.Elaine to support his brother, John Sherman.
This would seem clear refutation that Mr.Blaine was party to his own nomination that year.

It assuredly reveals keen political instinct and foresight.

The capital prize in the national lottery was not for him.
I did not meet him until two years later, when he gave me a minute account of what had happened immediately thereafter; the swing around the circle; Belshazzar's feast, as a fatal New York banquet was called; the far-famed Burchard incident.