Chapter XXVII: Later Years

Trumbull's senatorial term expires in 1873--Not reelected--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

CHAPTER XXVIII

CONCLUSION

Trumbull goes to Belleville to attend the funeral of Gustave
Koerner--Is taken with illness at hotel--On his return to his
home he is found to be suffering from an internal tumor--His
physicians decide that a surgical operation would be fatal--He
lingers till June 5, 1896--Dies in his eighty-third
year--Impressive funeral--His great qualities as a lawyer and
political debater--His conscientiousness and courage--His
generosity, and fondness for little children--His place in the
country's history--Eulogy by Joseph Medill, and other
contemporaries--Trumbull's estimate of Lincoln--His religious
views--His surviving family and descendants 418

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