CHAPTER XXII

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THE CAMPAIGN OF 1879--MR. CHANDLER'S LAST DAYS--DEATH AND FUNERAL.

Mr. Chandler at the front in the political contests of 1879--He is greeted by a popular ovation--His name urged for the Republican presidential nomination in 1880--Grant his own choice--Work affects his strong constitution--His Chicago speech--Dead in his bed at the Grand Pacific Hotel on Nov. 1, 1879!--The national grief--Funeral and burial. 386

APPENDIX.

ZACHARIAH CHANDLER'S LAST SPEECH: DELIVERED IN MCCORMICK HALL, IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO, ON OCTOBER 31, 1879.

THE DORIC PILLAR OF MICHIGAN: A MEMORIAL ADDRESS, DELIVERED IN THE FORT STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, DETROIT, ON NOVEMBER 27, 1879, BY THE REV. A. T. PIERSON, D.D.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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STEEL PORTRAIT OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, _Frontispiece._

THE CHANDLER HOMESTEAD AT BEDFORD, N. H., 33

THE BIRTHPLACE OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, 35

THE ENTRY OF THE BIRTH OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER IN THE FAMILY BIBLE, 37

THE SCHOOL HOUSE AT BEDFORD, N. H., 39

THE CHANDLER BLOCK (Detroit), 49

DETROIT IN 1834, 65

FAC-SIMILE OF THE "TEMPERANCE TICKET" OF 1852 IN MICHIGAN, 86

THE FIRST REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION--("Under the Oaks" at Jackson, Mich., July 6, 1854), 111

THE NATIONAL CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON, 127

THE SHIP CANAL AT THE ST. CLAIR FLATS, 173

PORTRAIT OF SENATOR CHANDLER IN 1862, 217

PORTRAIT OF THE LATE JAMES M. EDMUNDS, 315

THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON, 341

THE CABINET OF PRESIDENT GRANT--1876-'77--(From a Sketch by Mrs. C. Adele Fassett), 347

THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, 353

PLAT OF THE MARSH FARM, 361

THE "BIG DITCH" OF THE MARSH FARM, 363

THE MAIN HOUSE AT THE MARSH FARM, 365

THE LARGE BARN AT THE MARSH FARM, 367

MR. CHANDLER'S RESIDENCE AT WASHINGTON, 369

MR. CHANDLER'S RESIDENCE AT DETROIT, 371

THE STATE CAPITOL OF MICHIGAN, 377

SENATOR CHANDLER DENOUNCING THE EULOGIES UPON JEFF. DAVIS IN THE SENATE CHAMBER AT 3 A. M. OF MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1879, 381

THE GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL AT CHICAGO, 389

PROFILE BUST OF ZACHARIAH CHANDLER--(A sketch from Leonard W. Volk's Plaster Cast), 391

THE TRIBUTE OF GEN. U. S. GRANT (_fac-simile_), 393

ZACHARIAH CHANDLER.

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