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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 23: three months in Congress. (search)
ed was a vote by Tellers, and ninety-four voted in favor to twenty-two against—a bare quorum in all, a great many being then in the Senate—none, I believe, at that moment in the extra refectory. But had no such refectory been opened in either end of the Capitol, I believe the personal collisions which disgraced the Nation through its Representatives would not have occurred. I shall not speak further of them—I would not mention them at all if they were not unhappily notorious already. March 6th. Mr. Greeley was one of the three thousand persons who attended the Inauguration ball, which he describes as a sweaty, seething, sweltering jam, a crowd of duped foregatherers from all creation. I went, he says, to see the new President, who had not before come within my contracted range of vision, and to mark the reception accorded to him by the assembled thousands. I came to gaze on stately heads, not nimble feet, and for an hour have been content to gaze on the flitting phantas<