night  later  (September  3rd)  in  the  same  city  — Philadelphia  —  by
a  still  more  imposing  assemblage  called  by  the  loyalists  of  the  South,
who,  desiring  to  explain  their  exact  situation  to  co-operating  friends,
invited  delegations  from  the  Northern  States  to  meet  them.  Promi
nent  Republicans  from  every  loyal  Commonwealth  responded  in  full
force  to  these  men  who  were  endeavoring  to  reconstruct  their  States
on  an  enduring  basis  of  Constitutional  liberty.  Pennsylvania  sent
a  generous  delegation  as  hosts  to  those  who  were  to  enjoy  the  hospi
talities  of  the  State.  Governor  Curtin  headed  the  list.  Associated
with  him  were  General  Geary,  already  named  as  his  successor,  Gene
ral  Simon  Cameron,  at  that  time  a  private  citizen,  Colonel  John  W.
Forney,  then  editor  of  the  Philadelphia  Press,  and  representatives
from  every  Congressional  district  in  the  State.  Other  States  re
sponded  with  equal  cordiality.  Senators  Morgan  and  Harris,  Horace
Greeley,  and  John  Jacob  Astor,  came  from  New  York.  Massachu
setts  sent  her  governor,  her  senators,  and  all  her  living  ex-governors.
It  became,  indeed,  the  fashion  for  the  New-England  States  to  send
governors  and  ex-governors,  and  every  State  was  represented  in  this
way.  New  Jersey  did  likewise.  The  Western  States  were  fully
represented  by  their  ablest  and  most  zealous  men.  Two  future  Presi
dents  were  on  the  delegation  from  Ohio,  with  General  Schenck  and
Stanley  Matthews  and  the  influential  German  editor  Frederick
Hassaurek.  Oliver  P.  Morton  came  from  Indiana,  Lyman  Truinbull
from  Illinois,  Fairchild  and  Howe  from  Wisconsin,  Zachariah  Chan
dler  and  Carl  Schurz  (then  editor  of  the  Detroit  Post)  from  Michigan.
The  border  slave  States  sent  strong  men.  N.  B.  Smithers  came  from
Delaware  ;  Senator  Creswell,  Francis  Thomas,  and  C.  C.  Fulton  of
the  Baltimore  American,  from  Maryland  ;  Governor  Boreman,  A.  W.
