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If we can get the offices, we, and not a 'military saphead' [Meade], can conduct the next election; we can by the Spalding bill get the government, rule the state as long as we please provisionally, and, when satisfied we can hold our own against the rebels, submit the constitution to a vote. We must wait until sure of a Republican majority if we have to wait five years. [1525] The carpet-baggers were in high hope. A girl applied to one of the managers of the Montgomery