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CHAPTER XXVII.. Corruption in Official Life.

Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, V. 1-2 · Benjamin Perley Poore — chapter 115 of 182 · ~34 words · public domain

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CORRUPTION IN OFFICIAL LIFE. Fifty Congressional Drag-nets at Work--Female Jealousy--A Nantucket Story--Impeachment of General Belknap, After his Resignation-- Beautiful Mrs. Belknap--The Whisky Ring--Revenge of Senator Henderson, of Missouri--Trial of General Babcock, and his Acquittal.

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