Haply there was a body of demigods, as yet uninvoked, who should
speedily settle all that. When Smith of Minnesota, Robinson of Vermont,
and Jones of Georgia returned to Congress from these rural seclusions
so potent with information and so freed from local prejudices, it was
understood, vaguely, that great things would be done. This was always
understood. There never was a time in the history of American politics
when, to use the expression of the journals before alluded to, "the
present session of Congress" did not "bid fair to be the most momentous
in our history," and did not, as far as the facts go, leave a vast
amount of unfinished important business lying hopelessly upon its
desks, having "bolted" the rest as rashly and with as little regard to
digestion or assimilation as the American traveller has for his railway
refreshment.
In this capital, on this languid midsummer day, in an upper room of one
of its second-rate hotels, the Honorable Pratt C. Gashwiler sat at
his writing-table.
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