Hayes' election as legal. This, however, can never explain how the Democratic governors could be elected on the same tickets which were thrown out as fraudulent when considering the Presidential electors.

When the time came for the next campaign for Congress (1878) Burrows was a more seasoned politician. He had made up his mind to sit in the Forty-sixth Congress, and he did not intend to permit any slip to compass his defeat. The ease with which he secured the nomination did not lull him into any false confidence, nor did the expressions of congratulation received from statesmen of National reputation, who by this time had become his personal friends. On August 3, 1878, Blaine wrote him from Augusta, Maine: "I congratulate you cordially on your nomination. Many friends-new and old-will hail with delight your return to public life. But the first thing to carry Michigan is to secure a rousing victory in Maine, and we want you to lend the aid of your persuasive eloquence to do it. We want you to begin with us in Portland Monday, Aug. 19th, and take a starring tour of fifteen or twenty days through our largest and best towns. You cannot estimate the amount of good you can do. Our State Committee are unanimous and enthusiastic for you.

telegraph me to make the appointments.”

Please

Schuyler Colfax wrote him again from South Bend,

under date of August 9, 1878: "Although out of political life myself, with neither desire nor willingness to return to it in any capacity, I am especially glad that one so admirably fitted for it by eloquence and energy, and who deserved it so well, has been nominated for Congress in your district; and I hope there is no doubt of your triumphant reëlection, although we hear strange rumors from Michigan of doubts as to the result in that once overwhelmingly Republican State.

Burrows responded to Blaine's invitation to spend two weeks campaigning with him in Maine. In return, Blaine later went to Michigan and assisted him in his own campaign, visiting him at his home, and strengthening the friendship which existed up to the time of the "plumed knight's" death. During the campaign Burrows made one hundred and fifteen speeches, averaging two hours each. He came through triumphant, and was elected to the Fortysixth Congress by a handsome plurality. Even up to the last, however, Burrows was fearful lest something might occur to bring about a repetition of his disappointment two years earlier, and he urged Blaine to come to Michigan for a second time. Blaine in explaining why he could not respond, also gives the embryo statesman advice from the experience of an elder statesman.

From James G. Blaine

MY DEAR BURROWS:

AUGUSTA, MAINE, November 10, 1878

I did not get your letter till the campaign was nearly over-I only got home day before yesterday. But I knew you were not in danger. Victory was in the air for you. You did not need me! Your defeat two years ago made you over-cautious. In your many victories of the future you will have absolute confidence. My sincere regards and congratulations to Mrs. Burrows-and your daughter— I fell in love with both.

The return of Burrows to Congress attracted more than ordinary interest, as he had already come to be looked upon as a growing power in his Party, and one upon whom the leaders had already begun to lean. Moses Coit Tyler wrote him from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, on November 8, 1878: “I want to tell you that I am one of the many who rejoice over your return to Congress, where I hope and believe you will have a career still more distinguished than before. The Republican Party must and will stand steady for political and financial honor. Your recent speeches in the good cause I have heard spoken of with the highest praise. Success attend you."

Senator T. W. Ferry wrote from Grand Haven,

Michigan, November 9, 1878: "Many congratulations on your splendid success, due greatly to your efficient canvass. I am glad you go in with so large a majority. Your thorough canvass has made you more intimately and favorably known in your district. One genial woman under your roof will laugh more heartily, and win you, as she always does, more friends. Kind regards to her. Best wishes.”

Colfax wrote again (November 9, 1878): “I write to congratulate you with all my heart on the magnificent victory you won in your district last Tuesday,-honorable to the district and thrice honorable to yourself. I know the odds you had to encounter, and which enhanced the brilliancy of your successful campaign. With best wishes (although mad that you didn't come and speak to us).”

After the election Burrows settled down again to his law practice while waiting for the opening of the Forty-sixth Congress, taking Frank Knappen, a son of his former associate, into partnership under the firm name of Burrows & Knappen. In a memorandum in his scrap-book he records: "This year (1878) I lose a sister and my father, so that I have left of my kin only five brothers. How rapidly my family is gathering on the other side!”

CHAPTER VI

BACK IN CONGRESS. 1879-1885

HE experiences of the four years out of Congress represented Burrows' first real political education, and resulted in making him more thorough in his analyses of public questions and more genuinely effective in his approach to National problems. Previously his oratory had been almost too persuasive, and this was dangerous to his own personal development. The ease with which he had swayed audiences by the spell of his personality and the effectiveness of his eloquence had lulled him into a sense of false security. A careful examination into his speeches previous to this time shows surface excellence rather than basic solidity.

His defeats had given Burrows time and opportunity for self-analysis. He had learned that to produce lasting effects upon his audiences he must not only win their sympathetic interest but must educate them to look with his eyes upon the various problems of the day. From this time on one finds a growing mastery of the causes which Burrows espoused, and his appeal becomes correspondingly