ive and libellous.

Being on friendly terms with the Harpers, I made my displeasure so
resonant in Franklin Square--Nast himself having no personal ill will
toward me--that a curious and pleasing opportunity which came to pass
was taken to make amends. A son having been born to me, Harper's Weekly
contained an atoning cartoon representing the child in its father's
arms, and, above, the legend "10,000 sons from Kentucky alone." Some wag
said that the son in question was "the only one of the 100,000 in arms
who came when he was called."

For many years afterward I was pursued by this unlucky speech, or rather
by the misinterpretation given to it alike by friend and foe. Nast's
first cartoon was accepted as a faithful portrait, and I was accordingly
satirized and stigmatized, though no thought of violence ever had
entered my mind, and in the final proceedings I had voted for the
Electoral Commission Bill and faithfully stood by its decisions. Joseph
Pulitzer, who immediately followed me on the occasion named, declared
that he wanted my "one hundred thousand" to come fully armed and
ready for business; yet he never was taken to task or reminded of his
temerity.

IX

The Electoral Commission Bill was considered with great secrecy by
the joint committees of the House and Senate. Its terms were in direct
contravention of Mr. Tilden's plan. This was simplicity itself. He
was for asserting by formal resolution the conclusive right of the two
Houses acting concurrently to count the electoral vote and determine
what should be counted as electoral votes; and for denying, also by
formal resolution, the pretension set up by the Republicans that the
President of the Senate had lawful right to assume that function. He was
for urging that issue in debate in both Houses and before the country.
He thought that if the attempt should be made to usurp for the president
of the Senate a power to make the count, and thus practically to control
the Presidential election, the scheme would break down in process of
execution.

Strange to say, Mr. Tilden was not consulted by the party leaders in
Congress until the fourteenth of January, and then only by Mr. Hewitt,
the extra constitutional features of the electoral-tribunal measure
having already received the assent of Mr. Bayard and Mr. Thurman, the
Democratic members of the Senate committee.

Standing by his original plan and answering Mr. Hewitt's statement that
Mr. Bayard and Mr. T