Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Attorney-general Williams” in chapter 3, page 27 of William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2:
...s, He refuses to hear a message from a body of armed men, accompanied by a menace.
The crowd in Canal Street were not armed, as Kellogg and Billings knew.
An hour later, Packard telegraphed to Attorney-general Williams :
The people assembled at the meeting were generally unarmed.
This talk about armed men was meant for Washington and New York, not for New Orleans.
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