CHAPTER IX. LAST DAYS OF THE BUCHANAN ADMINISTRATION. My First Appearance Before a New York Audience--Lincoln's Nomination at the Chicago Convention--I Engage Actively in the Presidential Canvass--Making Speeches for Lincoln--My Letter to Philadelphia Citizens--Acts of Secession by the Southern States--How the South was Equipped by the Secretary of the Navy--Buchanan's Strange Doctrine Regarding State Control by the General Government--Schemes "To Save the Country"--My Reply to Mr. Pendleton on the Condition of the Impending Revolution--The Ohio Delegation in the 36th Congress --Retrospection. CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNING OF LINCOLN'S FIRST ADMINISTRATION. Arrival of the President-Elect at Washington--Impressiveness of His Inaugural Address--I am Elected Senator from Ohio to Succeed Salmon P. Chase--Letters Written to and Received from My Brother William Tecumseh--His Arrival at Washington--A Dark Period in the History of the Country--Letter to General Sherman on the Attack Upon Fort Sumter--Departure for Mansfield to Encourage Enlistments --Ohio Regiments Reviewed by the President--General McLaughlin Complimented--My Visit to Ex-President Buchanan--Meeting Between My Brother and Colonel George H. Thomas. CHAPTER XI. SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FOR THE WAR. Condition of the Treasury Immediately Preceding the War--Not Enough Money on Hand to Pay Members of Congress--Value of Fractional Silver of Earlier Coinage--Largely Increased Revenues an Urgent Necessity --Lincoln's Message and Appeal to the People--Issue of New Treasury Notes and Bonds--Union Troops on the Potomac--Battle of Bull Run-- Organization of the "Sherman Brigade"--The President's Timely Aid --Personnel of the Brigade. CHAPTER XII. PASSAGE OF THE LEGAL TENDER ACT IN 1862. My Interview with Lincoln About Ohio Appointments--Governmental Expenses Now Aggregating Nearly $2,000,000 Daily--Secretary Chase's Annual Report to Congress in December, 1861--Treasury Notes a Legal Tender in Payment of Public and Private Debts--Beneficial Results from the Passage of the Bill--The War Not a Question of Men, but of Money--Proposed Organization of National Banks--Bank Bills Not Taxed--Local Banks and Their Absorption by the Government--The 1862 Issue of $150,000,000 in "Greenbacks"--Legal Tender Act a Turning Point in Our Financial History--Compensation of Officers of the Government. CHAPTER XIII. ABOLISHMENT OF THE STATE BANKS. Measures Introduced to Tax Them out of Existence--Arguments That Induced Congress to Deprive Them of the Power to Issue Their Bills as Money--Bill to Provide a National Currency--Why Congress Authorized an Issue of $400,000,000, of United States Notes--Issue of 5-20 and 10-40 Bonds to Help to Carry on the War--High Rates of Interest Paid--Secretary Chase's Able Management of the Public Debt--Our Internal Revenue System--Repeal of the Income Tax Law--My Views on the Taxability of Incomes.