The former was a native of New York.

The latter was born in Vermont, but had long resided in Illinois.

He served in the Union Army with the rank of Colonel in the Donelson and Shiloh campaigns under General Grant .-- The senators from Texas, Morgan C.Hamilton and J.W.Flanagan, were both natives of the State and long domiciled in Texas .-- Of the Tennessee senators one was born in the South and one in the North.
The representation of the Southern States being complete in both Houses before the close of the first session of the Forty-first Congress, an impartial estimate could be made of the strength and capacity of the men who were opprobriously designated in the South either as Carpet-baggers or Scalawags.

It was soon ascertained that the unstinted abuse heaped upon them as a class was unjust and often malicious.

The large proportion, and notably those who remained in Congress beyond two years, were men of character and respectability, in many cases indeed of decided cleverness.