In the Senate they had a respectable minority, with Thurman and Bayard to lead it.

In the House Randall and Kerr and Cox, Lamar, Beck and Knott were about to be reenforced by Hill and Tucker and Mills and Gibson.

The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory.
Empty rant was to yield to reason.

For all its mischances and melancholy ending the Greeley campaign had shortened the distance across the bloody chasm..