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 When he appeared on the hustings, he was the same easy, gentlemanly fellow as in a drawing room. He slapped no man on the back, nor offered treats, nor was there any change in his manner. He was naturally affable, and he made it his object to win the good will of his hearers through their enlightenment, not their prejudices. The Bob Henry episode did him immense service. A great revolution had taken place in regard to Bob Henry. As, when he had been poor and in prison and friendless and suspected, everybody had been down on him, so now when he was free and cleared of suspicion, and had been an object of public attention, he became something of a hero. He worked like a beaver among his own people for "Marse French." At "night meetings" and such, he was powerful—and in the pulpits of the colored people, the fiat went forth that it "warn't wuff while fer cullud folks to pay de capilation tax fer to git young Mr. Hibbs, who warn' no quality nohow" into Congress—for the redoubtable Hibbs was Pembroke's opponent. This too, had its favorable action on his canvass. As for Petrarch, he claimed a direct commission from the Lord to send "Marse French ter Congriss. De Lord, de Great Physicianer, done spoken it ter me in de middle o' de night like he did ter little Samson, sayin' 'Petrarch whar is you?' He say 'What fur I gin you good thinkin' facticals, 'cep' fur ter do my will? An' it ain't Gord's will dat no red headed Hibbs be 'lected over ole Marse French Pembroke's son, dat allus treated me wid de great