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cheeks, thin lips, long and strong mouth, long, large, sharp
nose—whole face sunken and sharp, full of inequalities—
dark wavy hair—Indian—club-footed—ablest man.

Logan—black eyebrows—long black implacable
straight hair, without a merciful curve in it—big black
moustache—pleasant-looking eye often—even makes bad
jokes sometimes, but tigers play in a ponderous sort of
way. Splendid war record—I5th army corps and Army
of Tenn.—I of Sherman's generals—better suited to war
than making jokes.

Thomas of Md.—belongs to another age—Whig—old
style—hermit in every way—woman-hater—lives up in
mountains alone in N.W. Maryland—one of the oldest
Reps.—is a radical—white hair laid in folds—hair comes
washing forward over his forehead in 2 white converging
waves over a bare worn rock.

Judge Shellabarger—able.

Bingham, Ohio—nervous, severe and ready debater.

Garfield—young, able and scholarly—was chief of
Rosencranz staff—preacher.

Carey of Ohio (8 hour) witty speech—large face—a
little full—Indian—long iron-gray hair tuned back and
not parted—heavy, large, portly man—shaven—long,
thin, strong mouth—slow of movement—ponderous every
way—his strong suit his persistence, no doubt.

Bingham, Conn.—eloquent—commands attention of
House—silky very light hair, just touched with gray—
kinky or rather curvy—turned back loosely so as to sug-
gest, apparently, with a harrow—large, high, broad fore-
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