Note 92 — Chapter XI · THE FREE-SOIL CAMPAIGN 1847-1848

"The Barnburners made the Monumental City lurid with their wrath, frightening the delegates from the back States almost out of their wits."—H.B. Stanton, Random Recollections, p. 162. "Or, as one man said in a speech, 'the regular delegates might occupy half a seat apiece, provided each of them would let a Hunker sit on his lap.'"—Ibid., p. 161.