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mayor. But two spirits of a different quality spoke out. Washburne said, Any man who will try to stir party prejudices at sunes; and this was the first night of their common cause. Washburne in Congress became Grant's good angel against the public, with them to Springfield on the same train. But, though Washburne's belief in him was already considerable, his influence fIt all seems as casual as fate. Tired of waiting, though Washburne counselled patience, he was about to return to Galena, wh, I will not serve under a drunkard. The slander reached Washburne through the newspapers; and he, his faith in Grant alread indebted to nobody. His own letter about it, written to Washburne a month later, is like him: I see the credit of attackinghis hour or at any other of his life. But in a letter to Washburne he gives us a glimpse into his silent soul. There are sos storm of abuse which the country let loose upon him. To Washburne he wrote: I would scorn being my own defender . . . excep