How Trumbull received the news--Carl Schurz advises Greeley to decline the nomination--Greeley decides to accept it--Meeting of Liberal Republican leaders in New York to consider their course--Trumbull and Schurz decide to support the Cincinnati ticket--Correspondence between Schurz and Godkin--Parke Godwin against Greeley--President Grant renominated by the Republicans with Henry Wilson for Vice-President--The Democrats at Baltimore adopt both nominees and platform of the Liberal Republicans--A minority call a bolting convention, which nominates Charles O'Conor--Trumbull's speech at Springfield, Illinois, in support of the Cincinnati ticket--Greeley's campaign starts with the prospect of victory--North Carolina election in August gives the Grant ticket a small majority--The tide turns against Greeley--Greeley takes the stump in September and makes a favorable impression, but too late--The October elections, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, go heavily Republican--Greeley and Brown defeated--Death of Greeley following the election--State election in Louisiana in 1872--Fraudulent returns in favor of Kellogg exposed by Senators Carpenter and Trumbull--Kellogg sustained by President Grant 389
Trumbull's senatorial term expires in 1873--Not reëlected--He resumes the practice of law in Chicago--The second Grant administration worse than the first--The Republican party beaten in the congressional elections of 1874--The Hayes-Tilden campaign in 1876--Disputed returns in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida--The Electoral Commission--"Visiting Statesmen" sent to Louisiana to watch the count of the votes--Trumbull chosen as one of them--Chosen also to support Tilden's claim before the electoral commission--His argument thereon--E. W. Stoughton, in behalf of Hayes, contends that the returns of election certified by the governor of a state must be accepted--Also that the status of a governor recognized by the President of the United States cannot be questioned--Both these contentions are sustained by the Electoral Commission--By a vote of 8 to 7 Hayes is declared elected President--Trumbull's marriage to Miss Mary Ingraham--He is nominated for governor of Illinois by the Democrats in 1880--Is defeated by Shelby M. Cullom--My last meeting with Trumbull at the World's Columbian Exposition--Trumbull's professional services in the Debs case--His public speech, after the case was decided--He sides with the Populist party--Prepares their declaration of principles in December, 1894--Text of the Declaration 407