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Let there be peace! Yet there are those among us who are not sufficiently satiated with blood and plunder, and cry for more war." General Wool would have been severely criticised if it had not been remembered that for nearly sixty years he had been a faithful soldier and had loyally followed the flag of the Union in three wars.
Many members of the convention were outspoken Democrats and their presence, therefore, did not indicate and division in the Republican ranks,--the objective point to which all the efforts of the Administration were steadily addressed.

Conspicuous representatives of this class were Generals John A.McClernand of Illinois, J.W.
Denver of California, Willis A.Gorman of Minnesota, James B.Steedman of Ohio.

The delegates who had been Republicans were all of the most conservative type, and it is believed that every one of them became permanently identified with the Democratic party.