uieted public sentiment. The lapse of time
has had a healing effect upon both sections, and it is to be hoped
that hereafter parties will not be divided on sectional lines.

The Cincinnati speech had one merit, in that it furnished speakers
and the public the exact statistics of our financial condition in
advance of my annual report to Congress in December. I made speeches
each week day in Ohio and Indiana until the 11th of September, when
I returned to Washington.

The election in Maine, which occurred early in September, was
unfavorable to the Republican party, and caused General Garfield
some uneasiness. He wrote me the following letter:

"Mentor, Ohio, September 17, 1880.
"Hon. John Sherman, Washington, D. C.

"My Dear Sir:--Yours of the 15th inst. is received. I hear in many
ways the same account which you give of the cause of our falling
off in Maine. The latest news indicates that we have carried the
election after all, but our people claimed too much, and the moral
effect of it may be bad in some of the doubtful states. Still, so
far as I can see, every Republican is more aroused and determined
than ever.

"I think we should now throw all our force into Indiana and Ohio
until the October election. Indiana is now more thoroughly organized
by our people than it has been for many years, and I believe that
nothing can defeat us, except importations and purchases by the
Democracy. I have not known the Republicans of that state so
confident in six years as they now are, and every available help
should be given them to win the fight. I have learned certainly
that the Democrats intend to make a powerful raid upon Ohio, for
the double purpose of beating us if they can, and specially in
hopes that they may draw off our forces in Indiana.

"I know you can accomplish a great deal, even while you are in
Washington, but I hope you will give as much time as possible to
the canvass here and in Indiana--especially give us the last ten
days.

"Very truly yours,
"J. A. Garfield."

I replied on the 22nd of September that the assured election of
Plaisted, the fusion electoral ticket in Maine, and many things in
my correspondence, made me feel exceedingly anxious about the result
of the election, that my advices from Ohio were not satisfactory,
and I felt that we must exert ourselves to the utmost to insure
victory at our October election. "I think from my standpoint here,"
I said, "I can get more certain