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but he required much strength and skill to grasp his prize.
In everything save numbers his opponents were superior to his friends.
McEnery and Penn were men of wealth, position, and repute, with every citizen of New Orleans and every planter of Louisiana at their side.
Kellogg was a stranger in the city, having no other force behind him than the scalawags, the Black leaguers, and the Federal troops.
From Governor Warmoth he had nothing to expect.
Warmoth was trying a middle course.
Like Kellogg, Warmoth is a stranger on the Gulf.
His friends are scalawags and Negroes, but scalawags and Negroes who have lost their faith in Grant.
Young, bold, and dexterous, Warmoth is not the man to be discouraged by a single check.
As Governor he held the lists.
It was his duty to convene the Chambers, open the sessions, and endorse the bills.
Nothing could be done without his signature.
Might not this feud between Conservatives and Caesarians be turned to good account?
If neither Kellogg nor McEnery should be able to prove his case, Warmoth, the only legal officer, must continue to rule the State until a new election was held, a new return verified, a new
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