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roaring, we count the heads, and find them twenty-four Whites to twenty-eight Blacks.
Twenty-four and twenty-eight make fifty-two; four members short of a legal quorum!
Yet the Speaker has just assured us that the House we see is a full House.
Counting again we find our numbers true.
“Do you consider this assembly a lawful House, Mr. Speaker?”
“Yes, a lawful House, the Second Chamber of Louisiana.”
“Only fifty-two members are present.”
“ Fifty-six answer to their names.”
0, Michael Hahn!
On passing to the Upper House, we find a tall, pale Negro, with a small head and dissipated face, presiding over fifteen Black and thirteen White senators, who are debating whether they shall or shall not read the Senators in Washington a lesson by sending Pinchback up again as State Senator for Louisiana?
This pale and dissipated Negro is the Hon. Caesar C. Antoine, Lieutenant-governor of the State, sitting in the chair by virtue of his office.
No Conservative senators are present.
Caesar C. Antoine is an African of pure blood,
1875.
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