by me of its provisions it was accepted and approved by the unanimous
vote of the caucus.

When it was brought before the house, a majority of the Democratic
members,--under the leadership of Messrs. Streeter, Roane and
McIntosh,--fought it very bitterly. They contended that the Democrats
should have at least two of the six Congressmen and that an
apportionment could have been made and should have been made with that
end in view. The truth was that several of those who made such a
stubborn fight against the bill had Congressional aspirations themselves
and, of course, they did not fail to see that as drawn the bill did not
hold out flattering hopes for the gratification of that ambition. But it
was all that Mr. Goar and a few others that he had taken into his
confidence expected, or had any right to expect. In fact, the one
Democratic district, constructed in accordance with their wishes, was
just about what they wanted. While they voted against the bill,--merely
to be in accord with their party associates,--they insisted that there
should be no filibustering or other dilatory methods adopted to defeat
it. After a hard and stubborn fight, and after several days of exciting
debate, the bill was finally passed by a strict party vote. A few days
later it passed the Senate without amendment, was signed by the
Governor, and became a law.

As had been predicted by Mr. Goar, Hon. L.Q.C. Lamar was nominated by
the Democrats for Congress in the first district, which was the
Democratic district. The Republicans nominated against him a very strong
and able man, the Hon. R.W. Flournoy, who had served with Mr. Lamar as a
member of the Secession Convention of 1861. He made an aggressive and
brilliant canvass of the district, but the election of Mr. Lamar was a
foregone conclusion, since the Democratic majority in the district was