General Lee D.Ewing had been elected to this session from Fayette County for the express purpose of repealing the law removing the capital from Vandalia to Springfield.

"General Ewing was," says Mr.
Linder, "a man of considerable notoriety, popularity, and talents.

He had been a member of Congress from Illinois, and had filled various State offices in his time.

He was a man of elegant manners, great personal courage, and would grace either the _salons_ of fashion or the Senate chamber at Washington.

The Legislature opened its special session (I was there as a spectator), and General Ewing sounded the tocsin of war.