That part of my remarks which seemed to attract most attention and made the deepest impression was the declaration that it was my good fortune, as a member of the National House of Representatives, to sit within the sound of his eloquent voice on a certain memorable occasion when he declared that there could never be a permanent peace and union between the North and the South until the South would admit that, in the controversy that brought on the War the North was right and the South was wrong.

Notwithstanding that declaration, in which he was unquestionably right, I ventured the opinion that, had he been spared to serve out the term for which he had been elected, those who had voted for him would have been proud of the fact that they had done so, while those who had voted against him would have had no occasion to regret that he had been elected.
Upon the death of President Garfield Vice-President Arthur,--who had been named for that office by Mr.Conkling,--became President; but he, too, soon incurred the displeasure of Mr.Conkling.

Mr.Conkling had occasion to make a request of the President which the latter could not see his way clear to grant.

For this Mr.Conkling never forgave him.

The President tried hard afterwards to regain Mr.Conkling's friendship, but in vain.