. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . d by thePresident pro tempore, as The senator from New York,whereupon he left his desk, going to the right, the longestway around back of the back row of seats, with slow anddeliberate steps, passing close to me as I sat upon a sofa,so that I could critically examine his personal appearance—on to the central aisle, down which he walked with proudlyerect and undaunted carriage, and stopped at about thevery center of the chamber, and with great dignity bowedlow to the chair, and uttered the first words of a magnificentspeech. This action
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . d by thePresident pro tempore, as The senator from New York,whereupon he left his desk, going to the right, the longestway around back of the back row of seats, with slow anddeliberate steps, passing close to me as I sat upon a sofa,so that I could critically examine his personal appearance—on to the central aisle, down which he walked with proudlyerect and undaunted carriage, and stopped at about thevery center of the chamber, and with great dignity bowedlow to the chair, and uttered the first words of a magnificentspeech. This action of Conkling, in leaving his seat and going tothe central aisle, was unprecedented, and, of course, attractedthe attention, as well as evoked the surprise, of every senatorpresent, who ceased their work at once, save Senator Sum-ner, who ignored the whole proceeding and kept on con-spicuously reading a newspaper. Conkling stood a momentin all his majesty, without notes or manuscript, and slightlyturned and bowed to the right and left. He was dressed 40. EDWIN M. STANTON, SECRETARY OF WAR Civil-war Echoes — Character entirely in black—Prince Albert coat buttoned with onebutton at the waist, the rest open and showing a liberalexpanse of shirt front, a light blue cravat and Byronic turn-down collar, his face pale and the little curl hanging downover his forehead. He began slowly and with great delib-eration. After a while he warmed up and would turn tothe right and left, and then look at his aged father who satin seeming rapt admiration at his worthy offspring. Conk-ling soon caught sight of Sumners inattention and plainly-intended discourtesy, whereupon he was lashed into afurious condition of mind, and turning around and lookingdirectly at that senator, heaped upon him sarcasm andirony as they were never poured before. They had thesting of personal resentment for an assumed personalinsult in not deeming him of sufficient importance to granthim the scant courtesy of listeni
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