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CHAPTER XX.. The King Is Dead--Long Live the King.

Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, V. 1-2 · Benjamin Perley Poore — chapter 20 of 182 · ~41 words · public domain

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THE KING IS DEAD--LONG LIVE THE KING. "Le Roi Est Mort; Vive le Roi"--Extra Session of Congress--Trouble in the Whig Camp--Edward Everett before the Senate--Thurlow Weed-- Dissensions among the Whigs--Cabinet Troubles--Congressional Criticisms--Cushing and Adams, of Massachusetts--Wise, of Virginia --Bagby, of Alabama.

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