Development of "Greenback" strength in the West--Resolute resistance in Michigan to the spread of financial heresy--Mr. Chandler leads the Republican battle--A great victory--It is followed by his fourth election to the Senate--He takes his seat in time to answer rebel eulogies in the Senate on Jeff. Davis--His brief and telling response--It strikes the chord of patriotic feeling--The popular response--The "extra session" of 1879--Mr. Chandler's last Congressional speech. 374 CHAPTER XXII. 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. PAGE. 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