Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Breckinridge” in chapter 9 of Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.:
...mpathizers, who then filled the public offices and society at large in Washington.
They greeted the closing sentences of this speech with the wildest shouts and other vehement demonstrations, which Breckinridge , the presiding officer, did not restrain.
The tumult was so disgraceful that even Senator Mason, of Virginia, was ashamed of it, and he proposed, by a motion, to clear the galleries.
The House ...
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