But, from my knowledge of the man and of the circumstances connected with the case, I am satisfied this was not true.

His antipathy to Mr.Bruce grew out of the fact that Mr.Bruce had opposed him and had supported Ames in the fight for Governor in 1873.
So far as I have been able to learn, I am the only one of the Senator's friends and admirers who opposed his course in that contest that he ever forgave.

He, no doubt, felt that I was under less personal obligations to him than many others who pursued the same course that I did, since he had never rendered me any effective personal or political service, except when he brought the Independent members of the House in line for me in the contest for Speaker of that body in 1872; and even then his action was not so much a matter of personal friendship for me as it was in the interest of securing an endorsement of his own administration as Governor.
In Mr.Bruce's case he took an entirely different view of the matter.

He believed that he had been the making of Mr.Bruce.

Mr.Bruce had come to the State in 1869 and had taken an active part in the campaign of that year.