Whatever Mr.Weed might lack was more than supplied by the eloquent tongue of William M.Evarts.

Seldom if ever in the whole field of political oratory have the speeches of Mr.Evarts at Chicago been equaled.

Even those who most decidedly differed from him followed him from one delegation to another allured by the charm of his words.

He pleaded for the Republic, for the party that could save it, for the great statesman who had founded the party, and knew where and how to lead it.

He spoke as one friend for another, and the great career of Mr.Seward was never so illumined as by the brilliant painting of Mr.Evarts.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION.
With all the potential efforts and influences in his behalf, Mr.
Seward was confronted with obstacles which were insuperable.