CHAPTER XIV. RECONSTRUCTION AND IMPEACHMENT. Gov. Morton and his Scheme of Gerrymandering--The XIV Amendment-- Hasty Reconstruction and the Territorial Plan--The Military Bill-- Impeachment--An amusing Incident--Vote against Impeachment--The Vote reversed--The popular Feeling against the President--The Trial --Republican Intolerance--Injustice to Senators and to Chief Justice Chase--Nomination of Gen. Grant--Re-nomination for Congress--Personal --Squabble of Place-hunters--XVI Amendment. CHAPTER XV. GRANT AND GREELEY. The new Cabinet--Seeds of Party Disaffection--Trip to California-- Party Degeneracy--The liberal Republican Movement--Re-nomination of Grant--The Cincinnati Convention--Perplexities of the Situation --The Canvass for Greeley--Its Bitterness--Its peculiar Features-- The Defeat--The Vindication of Liberals--Visit to Chase and Sumner --Death of Greeley. CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUDING NOTES. Party Changes caused by the Slavery Issue--Notable Men in Congress during the War--Sketches of prominent Men in the Senate and House --Scenes and Incidents--Butler and Bingham--Cox and Butler--Judge Kelley and Van Wyck--Lovejoy and Wickliffe--Washburn and Donnelly --Oakes Ames--Abolitionism in Washington early in the War--Life at the Capital--The new Dispensation and its Problems. INDEX POLITICAL RECOLLECTIONS. CHAPTER I. THE HARRISON CAMPAIGN--THE BEGINNING OF ANTI-SLAVERY POLITICS. The "hard-cider" frolic of 1840--The issues--Swartwout and political corruption--The demand for a change--Character of Gen. Harrison-- Personal defamation--Mass-meetings and songs--Crushing defeat of the Democrats--First appearance of the slavery issue in politics-- Pro-slavery attitude of Harrison and Van Buren--Events favoring the growth of anti-slavery opinion--Clay and Mendenhall--Texas annexation and John Tyler.