It was long years after, and when Mr. Forsyth was in the zenith of his popularity, that the friends of Dooly proposed his name for the Senate of the United States.  His was the only name announced as a candidate to the Legislature, but, on counting the ballots, it was found Forsyth had been elected.  Dooly was present, and remarked to a friend that he was the only man he ever knew to be beaten who ran without opposition.  He saw the aspiring companions of his youth favorites of the people, and thrust forward into public places, winning fame, and rising from one position to another of higher distinction.  He witnessed the advance of men whom he had known as children in his manhood, preferred over him; and, in the consciousness of his own superiority to most or all of these, rather despised than regretted the prejudices of the public—­influenced by men designing and selfish—­which consigned him to obscurity because of an honest difference of opinion upon a point of policy which ninety out of every hundred knew nothing about.  While the companions of his early youth were filling missions abroad, executive offices at home, and Cabinet appointments, he was wearing out his life in a position where, whatever his abilities, there was little fame to be won.  Still he would make no compromise of principle.  In faith he was sincere, and too honest to pretend a faith he had not, though honors and proud distinction waited to reward the deceit.  As true to his friends as his principles, he would not desert either, and surrender his virtue to the seductions of office and honors.  Toward the close of his life, his friends got into office and power.  His friend, John Clarke, was elected Governor, upon the demise of Governor Rabun; but his day had passed, and other and younger men thrust him aside.  Parties were growing more and more corrupt, and to subserve the uses of corruption, more tractable and pliant tools were required than could be made of Dooly.

The election of Clarke was a triumph over the friends of Crawford, who was then a member of Mr. Monroe’s Cabinet, and had long been absent from the State.  It revived anew the flame of discord, which had smouldered under the ashes of time.  The embers lived, and the division into parties of the people of the United States, consequent upon the disruption of the Federal and Republican parties, and the candidacy of Mr. Crawford for the Presidency, caused a division of the old Republican party in Georgia.  Clarke immediately headed the opposition to Crawford, and his election was hailed as an evidence of Mr. Crawford’s unpopularity at home.  This election startled the old friends of this distinguished son of Georgia, and revived the old feeling.  Clarke was a man of strong will, without much mind, brave, and vindictive, and nursed the most intense hatred of Crawford constantly in his heart.  The long absence of Crawford from the State, and the secluded retirement of Clarke, had caused to cool in the public mind much of the former