source among the historic hills, to study the evolutions of popular sovereignty, to trace the gradual uprise of the masses from the dust of servility and degradation under the despotic heel; and this investigating instinct contained the germ of those magnificent works which have enriched the Napoleonic and the Jeffersonian literatures. Thrice great was the eloquent young tribune destined to become; great in law, great in politics and great in litera

ture.

But the balloting continued without bringing the convention any nearer the coveted goal. Once or twice an effort was made by some restless delegate to spring some other name, but the issue between Colquitt and anti-Colquitt was cast in terms of unyielding iron, and the supporters of the Governor were unwilling to listen to the suggestion of any other name. Besides partaking of the nature of defeat, the very thought of which was galling to the pride of the dominant majority, it was disloyal to the Governor whose assailed position made it impossible for him to retire in honor under fire from the enemy's guns.

At last when the truth became irresistibly evident that neither side was willing to yield the fight, and that any nomination under the two-thirds rule was virtually impossible on the existing line of battle, Mr. Walsh finally moved that, after three more ballots had been cast, the candidate receiving the largest vote be declared the candidate recommended by the majority ranks of the convention to the people of Georgia. The motion was carried and the roll-call of counties was resumed; but before

the last ballot was finished Colonel Clifford Anderson, of Bibb, after conferring with the gallant chief whose cause he represented, offered upon the altar of reconciliation and peace, two and two-thirds votes for Colquitt, while Judge Willis, of Talbot, shifted three additional opposition votes in the same generous spirit to Colquitt, but the final result when tabulated showed that fourteen votes were still lacking. Nevertheless under the terms of the motion offered by Mr. Walsh, Governor Colquitt was the candidate recommended by the majority faction to the suffrages of the State.

Efforts were made during the proceedings to stampede the convention into choosing some other candidate, and among the favorite sons of Georgia whose names were sprung were Thomas G. Lawson and Alexander H. Stephens; but the convention was not to be thrown into panic even by the accents of the most illustrious patronymics. The minority being unwilling to acquiesce in the judgment which the majority had rendered, met in adjourned session and, after mature deliberation, recommended to the people of Georgia as the candidate of the minority faction of the convention the Hon. Thomas M. Norwood, of Chatham. Judge Norwood had ably represented Georgia in the United States Senate and was an ideal embodiment of what is known as the scholar in politics, cultured, dignified and reserved. But he labored under the disadvantage of hailing from a community which was already represented in the senatorial contest by General Alexander R. Lawton, and consequently political complications resulted.

Two bitter factions now divided the Democracy of Georgia into hostile camps. Some of the newspapers of

the State which had opposed Governor Colquitt before the convention now supported him; but he had from the start most of the editorial batteries, including the Savannah News, which remained within the Colquitt lines even after Judge Norwood entered the race. But feudal as was the bitterness between the warring elements, the schism was healed in the fall election which resulted in the overwhelming success of Governor Colquitt; while the Legislature added the final touch of endorsement by choosing Joseph E. Brown to succeed himself in the United States Senate.