Note 237 — Chapter XX · DEAN RICHMOND’S LEADERSHIP AT CHARLESTON 1860
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"The Fernando Wood movement was utterly overthrown in the preliminary stages. Several scenes in the fight were highly entertaining. Mr. Fisher of Virginia was picked out to make the onslaught, when John Cochrane of New York, who is the brains of the Cagger-Cassidy delegation, shut him off with a point of order."—M. Halstead, National Political Conventions of 1860, p. 20.