Last night a very
pleasant meeting of Ohio men at Mr. James C. Wetmore's. Chief Justice Chase,
both Senators, Judge Swayne, many of the Representatives, General Gilmore, Tom
Corwin. A very happy time. Governor Corwin, happy, genial, full of humor. I saw
him standing at some distance from where I was comfortably seated. I went to
him and conducted him to my seat. He was happy, genial, and humorous as ever.
Late in the evening he was struck with paralysis on the right side, soon became
unconscious, and must die. So disappears the finest genius Ohio has ever
produced; without an equal as a popular orator in this country. . . .
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 3, p. 11
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