This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...them to prepare a resolution in behalf of our leader, and have it ready for introduction instantly that the committee reported. None would undertake the business; it was too like insurgency. Then, as the last resort, I mysfelf wrote an amendment, and at a caucus of the Douglas delegates held during the noon ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...them to prepare a resolution in behalf of our leader, and have it ready for introduction instantly that the committee reported. None would undertake the business; it was too like insurgency. Then, as the last resort, I mysfelf wrote an amendment, and at a caucus of the Douglas delegates held during the noon adjournment it was adopted. Mr. Holmari, afterwards the Great Objector, agreed to present the plank if the committee reported as we all believed it would. The convention reassembled, a denser jam on the floor than in the morning. In good time the committee on resolutions were ready. While the chairman was reading their report, the silence might have been heard. Mr. Buchanan was indorsed and the state pledged to him. The crisis was come. Where was Mr. Holman? A hundred voices called him. No answer. His courage had failed. Judge Pettit was putting the question upon adoption, and with us it was then or never. Climbing a desk, I succeeded in getting recognition, and, moving an amendment, sent up a copy of my resolution for reading by the secretary. Pettit was declaring it out of order, when such a tempest broke loose as I had never heard in a deliberative body. The yelling seemed to shake the solid pillars of the chamber. It shore the chairman's words from his lips squarely as if cut by scissors. He tried to be heard, so did I. In Vain. The roar continued. Suddenly I was seized, passed bodily overhead, and planted on the secretary's desk face to face with the presiding officer. His arms were rising and falling like a wood-chopper's. His countenance was purple with rage. My fear was that apoplexy would strike him. The tumult swept on and on. Occasionally, "Question," "Question/7 could be distinguished. At last, from sheer exhaustion, the chairman...
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