man
in the country has combined a military and legislative career with the
degree of success in both which General Logan has attained.

--George H. Pendleton, who had served in Congress during the
administrations of Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Lincoln, retired temporarily
from public life after his unsuccessful canvass for the Vice-Presidency
on the ticket with General McClellan in 1864. He was the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1869, against Rutherford B. Hayes,
and now returned to the Senate as the successor of Stanley Matthews.
He entered with the advantage of a long career in the House, in which,
as the leader of the minority during the war, he had sustained himself
with tact and ability.

--Nathaniel P. Hill, a native of New York, a graduate of Brown
University and afterwards professor of chemistry in the same
institution, a student of metallurgy at the best schools in Europe,
became a resident of Colorado as manager of a smelting company, in
1867. He soon acquired an influential position in that new and
enterprising State, and now took his seat in the Senate as the
successor of Mr. Chaffee.

--Henry W. Blair, already well known by his service in the House, now
entered the Senate; and Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, who had never
served in Congress, came as the successor of Mr. Barnum.

Southern men of note were rapidly filling the Democratic side of the
Senate chamber: Wade Hampton had taken a very conspicuous part in the
Rebellion, had assisted in its beginning when South Carolina was
hurried out of the Union. He immediately joined the Confederate Army,
where he remained in high command until the close of the war, after
which he took active part in the politics of his State and was elected
to the Governorship in 1876. An extreme Southern man in his political
views, he was in all private relations kindly and generous. His
grandfather Wade Hampton was engaged in two wars for the Union which
the grandson fought to destroy. He was with the men of Sumter and
Marion during the Revolutionary war, and was a major-general in the war
of 1812, commanding in Northern New York. At his death in 1835 he was
believed to be the largest slave-holder in the United States, owning
it was said three thousand slaves.

--George G. Vest, a native of Kentucky, was one of the few gentlemen
who had occupied the somewhat anomalous position of representing in the
Confederate Congress a State that had not seceded. He was