http://www.cityofsmoke.com New York History, Commentary, and Culture Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:02:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/696 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/696#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:26 +0000 William Bryk http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=696 Congress, as Mark Twain tells us, is our native criminal class. Most of us believe Congressmen can get away with murder. Few get away with it in the first degree. In 1859, the Hon. Daniel Edgar Sickles, Democrat of New York, did. ]]> http://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/696/feed 0