Governor, and this was another reason why anyone • desiring or holding office, any one in politics, should flock to the sup- port of a man who stood so close to so much appointive power as did James Tin ilton. Here at Lancaster, too, James Ham- ilton was making a new fame all his own. He was not a lawyer

preponderance of influence owing to the ability and experience of its rep- resentatives who were trained in politics. For this reason, at the close of the Civil War, he was opposed to the trial of Jefferson Davis and others for treason, as it was only the individ- ual and not a State who could commit the crime

cursed the spite that was was 'born to set it right." In politics, for example, between the demagogism of blind leaders and the shallow and fickle en- thusiasm of blinder followers, some of us are apt to think Humbug and Delusion never before had such sway of misrule. But, within the easy memory of men