They were graciously willing to accept benefits and favors at his hands so long as he would dispense them, but they never forgave him for the work of that grand period of his life, between his election to the Senate and the outbreak of the civil war, when he wrought most nobly for humanity and established a fame which no error of later life could blot from the minds of a grateful people.
Mr.Seward could not have been surprised at the treatment he thus received.

He had for nearly half a century been an intelligent observer of the political field, and he could not recall a single Northern man who had risked his popularity at home in defense of what were termed the rights of the South who had not in the supreme crisis of his public life been deserted by the South.

Mr.Webster, General Cass, William L.Marcy, Mr.Douglas, and President Pierce were among the most conspicuous of those who had been thus sacrificed.

The last sixty days of Mr.Buchanan's Presidency furnished the most noted of all the victims of Southern ingratitude.

Men of lower rank but similar experience were to be found in the years preceding the war in nearly every Norther State--men who had ventured to run counter to the principles and prejudices of their own constituency to serve those who always abandoned a political leader when they feared he might have lost the power to be useful to them.