through the Northern States, where he
was so universally hated. Mr. Lewis D. Campbell, who was Mr.
Burlingame's second, repelled this insinuation, and was confident
that his principal "meant business."

During the administration of President Pierce, Congress created
the rank of Lieutenant-General, and General Scott received the
appointment. He established his head-quarters at Washington, and
appeared on several occasions in full uniform riding a spirited
charger. Colonel Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, and "Old
Chapultepec," as Scott was familiarly called by army officers, did
not get along harmoniously, and the President invariably sided with
his Secretary of War. Mr. Seward, meanwhile, busily availed himself
of the opportunity to alienate General Scott from his Southern
friends.

While the Northern and Southern politicians "bit their thumbs" at
each other, the followers and the opponents of Senator Douglas in
the Democratic ranks became equally hostile, and in some instances
belligerent. I was then the associate editor of the _Evening Star_,
a lively local sheet owned and edited by Mr. Douglas Wallach.
Walking along Pennsylvania Avenue one afternoon, I saw just before
me Mr. Wallach engaged in an excited controversy with an elderly
gentleman, who I afterward learned was Mr. "Extra Billy" Smith, an
ex-Representative in Congress, who had grown rich by the extra
allowances made to him as a mail contractor. Each was calling the
other hard names in a loud tone of voice, and as I reached them
they clinched, wrestled for a moment, and then Smith threw Wallach
heavily to the sidewalk. Sitting on his prostrate foe, Smith began
to pummel him, but at the first blow Wallach got one of his
antagonist's thumbs into his mouth, where he held it as if it were
in a vise. Smith roared, "Let go my thumb! you are eating it to
the bone!" Just then up came Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, and
Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, who went to the rescue of Smith, Keitt
saying: "This is no way for gentlemen to settle their disputes,"
as he forced Wallach's jaws apart, to release the "chawed-up" thumb.
Wallach was uninjured, but for several weeks he went heavily armed,
expecting that Smith would attack him.

One day Mr. McMullen, of Virginia, in advocating the passage of a
bill, alluded to some previous remarks of the gentleman from Ohio,
not the one (Mr. Giddings) "who bellowed so loudly," he said, "but
to his sleek-headed colleague" (