His first act on reentering the Senate was to deliver an implacably bitter speech against the President.

It was his last public appearance.

He went thence to his home in East Tennessee, gratified and happy, to die in a few weeks.
VII There used to be a story about Raleigh, in North Carolina, where Andrew Johnson was born, which whispered that he was a natural son of William Ruffin, an eminent jurist in the earlier years of the nineteenth century.

It was analogous to the story that Lincoln was the natural son of various paternities from time to time assigned to him.

I had my share in running that calumny to cover.