https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Fri, 25 Dec 2015 01:00:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/696 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 23:56:26 +0000 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. ]]>