He had been a model of industry.

In all the pressure of Congressional life, to the duties of which he has given assiduous attention, he has devoted much time to literature and has published several original and entertaining books.
The Republican representatives from the South were in part natives of the States which sent them to Congress.

Of this class Oliver H.
Dockery of North Carolina was the leading man.

Of those who had gone to the South after the war the most conspicuous were Lionel A.Sheldon of Louisiana, George C.McKee of Mississippi, Alfred E.Buck and Charles W.Buckley of Alabama.

Horace Maynard fairly represented both classes, for although a native of Massachusetts he had lived in Tennessee for nearly a quarter of a century before the war, and was in all respects identified with the interests of the South, and to a large extent shared its prejudices.