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convention held.
Who knew what candidates might be chosen on that second trial?
Many things were in his favour.
He was Governor.
A moderate man, he stood between two factions, neither of which was strong enough to crush the other.
Under him there might be order.
Under McEnery there was likely to be disorder; under Kellogg there was certain to be anarchy.
Unable to trust Warmoth, and unwilling to meet a chamber opened by him, Kellogg convened a meeting of his partisans.
It was Saturday morning; on Monday the Chambers were to meet.
A Chamber organised by Warmoth would proceed to verify the elections, and would probably refer the great question as to which of the two candidates, McEnery and Kellogg, was legally elected, to the judges of the Supreme Court.
Kellogg feared alike the senators and the judges.
But how was he to sweep them both aside?
Billings, the unscrupulous attorney, who was acting in the Negro interest, proposed that Caesar Antoine, the Negro porter, should be employed to steal a march, not only on the Governor and the Chambers, but on the local courts.
The scheme proposed by Billings was adopted
1875.
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