was
engaged steadily in the practice of the law until his election to the
Senate. His training and culture are far beyond that ordinarily
implied by the possession of a college diploma. His mind has been
enriched by the study of books and disciplined by controversy at the
Bar and in the Senate. As a speaker he is fluent and eloquent, but
perhaps too much given to severity of expression. He possesses in
marked degree the dangerous power of sarcasm, and in any discussion
which borders upon personal issues Mr. Ingalls is an antagonist to
be avoided. But outside the arena of personal conflict he is a genial
man. He devotes himself closely to his senatorial duties, and
exhibits the steady growth which uniformly attends the superior mind.

--John P. Jones entered the Senate from Nevada in his forty-third year.
Though born in Wales, he was reared from infancy in the northern part
of Ohio. He went to California before he attained his majority, and
subsequently became a citizen of Nevada. His Welsh blood, his life in
the Western Reserve, and his long experience as a miner on the Pacific
slope, combined to make a rare and somewhat remarkable character. His
educational facilities embraced only the public schools of Cleveland,
but he has by his own efforts acquired a great mass of curious and
valuable information. A close observer of men, gifted with humor and
appreciating humor in others, he is a genial companion and always
welcome guest. He is a man of originality and works out his own
conclusions. His views of financial and economical questions are often
in conflict with current maxims and established precedents, but no one
can listen to him without being impressed by his intellectual power.

--Richard J. Oglesby, who took the place of Lyman Trumbull as senator
from Illinois, is a native of Kentucky, but went to Illinois when
twelve years of age. He was admitted to the bar as soon as he
attained his majority, in 1845. He was a soldier in the Mexican war,
and spent two years as a miner in California. On returning to
Illinois he took active part in politics, and was influential in
promoting the nomination of Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency in 1860.
He enlisted in the Union Army as soon as the civil war began, went to
the field as a Colonel and retired from it as a Major-General. He
was Governor of his State from 1865 to 1869, and was re-elected to the
same office in 1872 but was immediately transferred to the Sena