xecution.

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"Now that resumption is a success, Democrats say the Republican
party did not bring it about, but that Providence has done it; that
bountiful crops here and bad crops in Europe have been the cause
of all the prosperity that has come since resumption. We gratefully
acknowledge that Providence has been on the side of the Republican
party, or rather, that, having sought to do right, we find ourselves
supported by Divine Providence, and we are grateful to the Almighty
for the plentiful showers and favorable seasons that brought us
good crops; but we also remember that it was the passage of the
resumption act, the steady steps toward resumption, the accumulation
of the coin reserve, the economy of the people, and their adjustment
of business affairs to the time fixed for resumption, that, with
the blessings of Divine Providence, brought us resumption.

"We should be, and are, thankful to the Almighty, but we are under
no thanks whatever to the Democratic party. It has not, for twenty-
five years, had Providence on its side, but we may fairly infer
that, as it has steadily resisted Providence and patriotic duty
for more than twenty years, it must have had the devil on its side.
Democrats can claim no credit, but stand convicted of a blundering
mistake in abandoning the old and tried principles of their party,
and following after strange gods with the hope of a brief and
partial success. They have failed, and that dogma for hard money,
which they abandoned, has been adopted by the Republican party, as
the corner stone of its greatest success."

I spoke at Albany, Rochester, and Syracuse, and, on my way to
Washington, at New Brunswick, New Jersey.

After the election in Ohio, I received several letters from members
of the legislature, offering their support to me as a candidate
for United States Senator, to be elected in January to succeed Mr.
Thurman, for the term commencing on the 4th of March, 1881. Among
them was a letter from L. M. Dayton, a member of the general assembly
from Hamilton county, to which I replied as follows:

"Washington, D. C., November 2, 1879.
"My Dear Sir:--Your note of the 30th ult., in which you inquire
whether I will be a candidate for election as Senator of the United
States in place of Senator Thurman, is received.

"Early last summer, when this subject was first mentioned to me by
personal friends, I freely expressed my conviction that as the
general assembl