Excerpt from Through Green Glasses: Being a Historical Sketch of Legislatures of Florida for Thirty Years, Sketches Also of Members and Other Interesting Matters Connected With the State's History and GovernmentSomething must be said right here by me for the grand old hero General Bullock. He gave pretty near his whole attention for the passage of the Wailes claim, which gave Florida what was due her by the general government. Now since I have been here I have been asked a good many things about the Wailes claim, and was asked to put nothing in my book about it. I knew Colonel Wailes in Wash ington. I knew, through Colonel Henderso', that he had a contract from the State to get the State this money, and I helped him. I am not here as a citizen of the State to say whether he was entitled to the full amount or not, but what the State gave him as part payment was an acknowledgment of the debt, the Legislature allowing him a certain amount for his work, but did not give him the full amount he claimed. This broke his heart, and the State bears the blame.Now, speaking of Mr. Mallory, who is dead, he was a typical Southern gentleman, and really worth talking about. Mr. Mallory was looked upon in Congress and in the U. S. Senate, as one of the brightest men Congress had. As I say, he was a typical Southern gentleman, ever willing to help a friend, and highly honored by those who knew him. This, what I say about him, I know to be true.Now, as I go along in my remarks, I fancy I hear somebody playing the piano in the Leon Hotel. Somebody is singing. Somebody is saying a kind word. I mean that this was in my early days, and I am willing to say had we stuck to the Convention system, that kind of a feeling would have remained with us now. While it may be true that the primary is a good system, it lets down the gap for men for high honors, that couldn't get by in a convention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.