560 NOMINATED FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENCY. [1868. the ticket with Grant. It was the greatest personal triumph ever achieved in such a body. Abraham Lincoln had been twice elected from Illinois; Grant was from the same State, and usage required the candidate for the vice-presidency to be taken from some other part of the Union. But so universal was the faith in Colfax's fitness, that he was selected from many popular and able leaders. So pure is his personal character, that the venom of political enmity has never attempted to fix a stain upon it. No man has proved so effective a foe of the democratic party; but his fairness of statement, freedom from vituperation, and personal lovableness, have won from its leading members exceptionally kind and courteous treatment. 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