Selwyn now devoted himself to the making of enough conservative senators to control comfortably that body.
At length the Czar allowed the door to be opened, and the minister, with all the senators, came together into the room.
But, after he had been bitterly assailed by Selwyn's papers and by his senators, he made no further attempts at independence.
Two hundred and fifty carriages, containing the President of the United States, governors, senators, and other friends, were in the procession.
Senators were compelled to invest one-third of their fortunes in real estate in Italy; but this measure served only to increase the evil which they wished to cure.
Of the two United States Senators and the seven members of the lower house of Congress not more than one colored man occupied a seat in each house at the same time.
And the senators gave leave, and the messengers hired boats and men, and let down ropes with hooks, and at length drew up the pot of gold, some of which they gave as presents to the senators.
Seven Southern Representatives and two Southern Senators had voted against the Nebraska bill, and many individual voters condemned it as an act of bad faith--as the abandonment of the accepted "finality," and as the provocation of a dangerous antislavery reaction.