But nothing, beyond a few keen thrusts and parries and some sharp wit at Mr.Raymond's expense, was added to the debate.
Mr.Raymond never rallied from the defeat of January 9th.

His talents were acknowledged; his courteous manners, his wide intelligence, his generous hospitality, gave him a large popularity; but his alliance with President Johnson was fatal to his political fortunes.

He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.

It was an extremely mortifying fact to Mr.Raymond that with the power of the Administration behind him he could on a test question secure the support of only one Republican member, and he a colleague who was bound to him by ties of personal friendship.
The fate which befell Mr.Raymond, apart from the essential weakness of the issue on which he staked his success, is not uncommon to men who enter Congress with great reputation already attained.

So much is expected of them that their efforts on the floor are almost sure to fall below the standard set up for them by their hearers.