There was a very powerful movement going on all over the country to bring that about.

Wilson's hold upon the affection of the people everywhere was very strong indeed.
Wilson became Vice-President of the United States, March 4, 1873.

He died two years afterward.

I was asked to write the inscription for a tablet placed in the Vice-President's Room in the Capitol by order of the Senate in 1902.

It follows here.
IN THIS ROOM HENRY WILSON VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DIED NOVEMBER 22 1875.
THE SON OF A FARM LABORER, NEVER AT SCHOOL MORE THAN TWELVE MONTHS, IN YOUTH A JOURNEYMAN SHOEMAKER, HE RAISED HIMSELF TO THE HIGH PLACES OF FAME, HONOR AND POWER, AND BY UNWEARIED STUDY MADE HIMSELF AN AUTHORITY IN THE HISTORY OF HIS COUNTRY AND OF LIBERTY, AND AN ELOQUENT PUBLIC SPEAKER TO WHOM SENATE AND PEOPLE EAGERLY LISTENED.