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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Honorable thieves. (search)
Honorable thieves. --Two or three days after Emerson Etheridge was installed as clerk of the United States House of Representatives, the Hon. David Kilgore, a member of Congress from Indiana, stepped across from his own seat into the clerk's office, and began to complain, in the most violent terms, of the Secretary of War. The chief source of his e against that important official was, that he had refused a lot of bacon just offered him at the low price of ten cents, neat. Thaddeus Stevens — who sat behind a newspaper — allowed his Indiana friend to finish the story of his grievance, when, laying aside his paper, he thus accosted him; "Kilgore, you are the most infernal fool in Congress. You ain't fit to hold a seat in Congress, and if anybody will introduce a resolution to expel you, I will vote for it." Kilgore, a little surprised at the sudden assault of his brother Black Republican, wanted to know why he was so violent? "I'll tell you," says Stevens, "you, a man of sense,