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In the midst of the growing tumult a one-armed man entered the speaker's desk and called out in snappy tenor "Gentlemen, I am requested by the door-keeper to ask all persons not entitled to the floor to please retire." Bradley started, but Radbourn said, "No hurry, you have fifteen minutes yet. As a member-elect you have the courtesy of the floor anyway. Do you want to meet anybody?"
A number of gentlemen had gone from Leavenworth to Easton to attend the election, and had stayed over night, among whom were Captain R. P. Brown, a resident of Salt Creek Valley, near Leavenworth. Captain B. was a man well esteemed in his neighborhood, and was a member-elect of the Legislature.
Reeder refused to submit to the arrest for two reasons first, that his life would be in danger; second, he plead his privilege of exemption from arrest because he was a member-elect of Congress. Then United States Marshal Donaldson issued the following
He says: "I had a curiosity to see the famous 'rail-splitter, as he was then familiarly called, and as a member-elect of the Thirty-seventh Congress I desired to form some acquaintance with the man who was to play so conspicuous a part in the impending national crisis. On meeting him I found him far better looking than the campaign pictures had represented him.
I, as a member-elect, was present, and I remember how old Thaddeus Stevens at once assumed the dominating control in opposition to the President's plan. Stevens was a most remarkable character, one of the most remarkable in the legislative history of the United States. He believed firmly in negro equality and negro suffrage.
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