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The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood 0878892
The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood 0878892
The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood 0878892
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been the great gainer in this struggle for power.
She had increased her strength in the Senate by six
votes; she had regained her old time prestige in the
House; one of her most trusted sons was in the
Speaker's chair, while another brilliant Southron led
the administration forces on the floor. Born as she
was for the brilliant exercise of intellectual vigor,
the South was of that strain of blood which knows
how to wear the kingly graces of power so as best to
impress the “ common people." Many of the men of
the North had been charmed and fascinated by this
natural pomp and inborn demeanor of greatness and
had yielded to it.
Not month had gone by that this now dominant
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quent the interruptions by the contumacy both of
members and of the various cliques crowding the
galleries to suffocation, that little or no progress
could be made.
The leaders of the administration forces saw mid
night drawing near with no prospect of attaining
their object before the coming in of Sunday on which
the House had never been known to sit. An adjourn
ment over to Monday of the New Year might be
fatal, for who could tell what unforseen force might
not break up their solid ranks and throw them into
confusion. They must rise equal to the occasion.
A motion was made to suspend the rules, and to re
main in continuous session until the business before
the House was completed. Cries of “ Unprece
dented!" “Revolutionary “Monstrous came
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and its first dim light fell upon that shattered dome,
glorious even in its ruins, a single human eye, filled
with a gleam of devilish joy, looked up at it long and
steadily, and then its owner was caught up and lost
in the surging mass of humanity that held the Capitol
girt round and round.
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