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dat true,” hiccups his no less tipsy comrade, “ Ole Pinch some Nig. Bravo Pinch!”
Pinchback is with Kellogg, Hahn, and Campbell, waiting in the cabinet for a chance.
If six or seven Conservatives, led by curiosity, should happen to drop in, a legal quorum would be present, and the roll might be called, Hahn voted to the chair, and Vigers appointed Clerk.
Some trimmers of the Warmoth school are noticed slipping in and out-only, as they say, to see the fun and get a drink.
Pinch keeps an eye on these stragglers.
Once he counts fifty-five members round the bar. He calls a caucus; and debates the matter, but let him try his most, Pinch cannot convert a minority of fifty-five into a legal quorum of fifty-six.
More serious efforts must be made.
A hundred of the Black militia are marched into the House, and placed under Campbell's orders.
Help is asked from the Federal officers, and in spite of the President's late rebuff this help is given, not only by the army, but the fleet.
General Emory sleeps at the Custom House, where his field-guns are supported by a troop of horse.
The Commodore lays his ships
1875.
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