CHAPTER IX.

LAST DAYS OF THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION. My First Appearance Before a New York Audience--Lincoln's Nomination at the Chicago Convention--I Engage Actively in the Presidential Canvass--Making Speeches for Lincoln--My Letter to Philadelphia Citizens--Acts of Secession by the Southern States--How the South was Equipped by the Secretary of the Navy--Buchanan's Strange Doctrine Regarding State Control by the General Government--Schemes "To Save the Country"--My Reply to Mr. Pendleton on the Condition of the Impending Revolution--The Ohio Delegation in the 36th Congress --Retrospection.