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Seward, and perhaps Mr. Seward
himself, did not stand by him as the unfailing and powerful
support of Seward would have led men to expect. But when
he came into public life in 1885, and took his seat as a Senator
from the great State of New York, men looked to him to be
the great leader in restoring the broken ranks of the Republican
Party. I think it would have been easy to make him the Republican
candidate, and to elect him to the Presidency in 1888, if
he had been willing to take that position himself. But he
did not in the Senate, or in the counsels of the party, take
or attempt to take the leadership for which he was fitted.
He was invited in the spring or early summer of 1885 to address
a political club in Boston. The whole country listened eagerly
to see what counsel the great Senator and the great Constitutional
lawyer, and great orator, had to give to his party associates
and to the people in that momentous time. But he contented
himself with making a bright and witty speech. The club was
known as the Middlesex Club, though it had its meetings in
Boston.


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