to point out specifically that particular set of persons who were responsible for that mode of education, and for bringing to a crisis the events, which brought on the Rebellion; but I do say that it was a bad education which made men disloyal when they ought not to have been, and that there are men in the South at this day who know that to be the fact. That once acknowledged, then I shall forever blot out all differences. I would give full and implicit trust in every one at the South for having honest hearts, believing that the Confederate troops were not maliciously bad, but that their conduct was the result of bad political education." The general then referred to his election, and said that he was not one of those who believed that because a man has been in the army he is not qualified for civil service, and in a pleasant way said he believed he should make a reasonably good and respectable Senator.

In August, 1875, President Grant was a guest of General Burnside at "" Edghill Farm" for two days. On the first day he visited the ancient town of Bristol, which had been gaily decorated for the occasion. The streets were thronged with well-dressed people, the houses were decked with flags, and there was attendance of veteran associations and Grand Army posts. The next morning it rained, but in the afternoon the sun shone brightly, and General Grant participated in a Rhode Island clam-bake near General Burnside's house, with about two hundred invited guests. When they were seated at the table the host, with his fine face beaming with enjoyment and pardonable pride, stated that he was requested by General Grant to express the pleasure this visit to Rhode Island had afforded him and his gratification at the cordial welcome extended to him, and hesitating and smiling-that all he now desired was to eat his dinner." General Grant had never

before witnessed the process by which the mollusks of Narragansett Bay were converted on the funeral pyre into fit food for imperial, royal, or republican warriors. He had won a great victory at Shiloh, had captured Vicksburg, had flanked Lee in the Wilderness, and finally captured the Confederate legions at Appomattox Court House. At Edghill Farm," supported by General Burnside, he led a forlorn hope of two hundred tried and trusty friends "into the breach," right over the breast-works, and on through the smoke and slaughter of the biggest clam-pit since King Philip fed his hungry warriors on the sandy shores of Mount Hope Bay.

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General Burnside was a warm admirer of General Grant, and a firm supporter of his administration, although he never hesitated to express his opinions at the White House on the questions of the day, when they were directly at variance with those of the President. He had no desire to join in the scrambles for "patronage," but it was his pleasure and his pride to secure civil or military appointments for those who had served under him, especially the members of his personal staff.

IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE- DEATH OF MRS. BURNSIDE - SENATORIAL DUTIES - MODESTY-EXPOSURE OF AN AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT-CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR-HAYES AS PRESIDENT-TRIBUTE FROM SENATOR JONES-HOSPITALITY AT WASHINGTON.

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ENERAL BURNSIDE was promptly in his seat at

the commencement of the first regular session of the Forty-fourth Congress, on the 6th of December, 1875. He left Providence, however, with great reluctance, on account of the indisposition of Mrs. Burnside, who was unable to accompany him as had been projected. He was re-appointed on the committees of Military Affairs, Commerce, and Education and Labor, but he presented no business for consideration. Hastening home at the Christmas vacation, he found his wife much worse, and she was taken from him on the 9th of March, 1876. Her death was a great grief to her bereaved husband, who had retained for the bride of his youth "that love which is peculiar to men of strong minds-whose affections are not easily won, or widely diffused." A woman of great strength of character and of clear judgment, she had been his support and encouragement in many a trying hour, while she had adorned his domestic hearth by her virtues

and accomplishments. During their entire married life General and Mrs. Burnside furnished an interesting picture of conjugal felicity; united not only in affection and interests, but in tastes and inclinations. Their numerous friends sincerely mourned when this ripened garland of hymeneal intercourse was snapped; when the devoted husband was smitten with sudden gloom like the visitation of an eclipse; when this happy social picture was dashed by the Almighty hand into a portrait of premature loneliness, for "one was taken, the other left."

Politics does not, however, recognize private grief, and General Burnside soon had to leave for Washington to sit as a member of the high court of impeachment which tried General Belknap, Secretary of War. He was sworn in as a member of the court on the 17th of April, 1876, the second day of the trial, and he participated in the proceedings until early in the succeeding June, when he left for his rural home at Bristol. During that summer the few who saw him say that life seemed to him very dark indeed. For several months he was in a state of nervous and physical prostration, and entertained serious thoughts of retiring from the office of Senator, fearing that he could not perform the duties of the position to the satisfaction of the people of Rhode Island. While he overcame these fears, he never ceased to mourn the loss of his wife, although he never obtruded his grief. He had many quiet and lonely hours, and he looked forward with a certain hopefulness and trust to the time when he should again meet the dear friend and cherished counselor to whom he had given his early love.

At the second regular session, which commenced on the 4th of December, 1876, General Burnside took his seat, determined, if possible, to attend to his senatorial duties.

As a Senator, he displayed the same desire to promote the power and greatness of the Republic that he had while in the army and in the service of the State of Rhode Island, showing continually a patriotic sympathy with the masses of the people. He was a regular attendant on the meetings of the committees of which he was a member, and was rarely absent at the prayer of the chaplain, preparatory to the daily opening of the Senate. During the session he seldom left his seat, and listened attentively to everything that transpired. Occasionally he would say a few words in a straightforward way, and with the unhesitating air of being irrefragably in the right. As he proceeded every word he uttered sounded like the utterance of an oracle. Occasionally he would glance around with an expression of countenance which implied a doubt whether his hearers thought it worth while that he should say anything more in support of his proposition, nor was he displeased when any other Senator interrupted him, especially if he thought the interruption was made in good faith.

General Burnside's modesty was remarkable. Late one night, when a bill providing for the Electoral Commission was being discussed, he said: "Mr. President, in the discussion of important questions like this it becomes a Senator, young in the service, and particularly one unskilled in law and debate, to listen attentively to the arguments presented by eminent members of the Senate, and then to apply to the arguments and precedents his common sense, patriotism, and sense of justice, with a view of casting a correct vote. In that view, I had not intended to detain the Senate for a moment with any word from me upon the subject, until the remarks of the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Morton), the other day, with reference to the intimi