[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from March 23 (reply #62).

April 7. Journal sorely neglected of late, but I have been working night after night well into the small hours. The Senate passed Brooks’s second substitute (not the Hawks plan) 19 to 12, at two this morning. Very bad. I hoped we should escape a vote against us by indefinite postponement, but Thurlow Weed is omnipotent. I can’t see how we can prevent his forcing the bill straight through the legislature. However, Mr. Ruggles in his letter of yesterday predicted it could not get through the legislature.

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[Tax-chick]

I have been working night after night well into the small hours.

Doing what, I wonder. Perhaps writing letters to lobbyists and legislators and editors, writing pamphlets, that kind of thing. So much more labor-intensive than Tweeting.

[colorado tanker]

Samuel Ruggles was a prominent New Yorker and Strong’s father-in-law. Weed was known as “Boss” Weed and was extremely influential in Albany. The fissures are interesting because they were all nominally on the same side - former Whigs who became Republicans.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 7 (reply #33).

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