On September 9 the tour touched its nadir in St. Louis when Johnson, in another intemperate outburst, had the gall to blame Congress for the New Orleans riot: "Every drop of blood that was shed is upon their skirts, and they are responsible for it."67 Turning himself into a martyr, he proclaimed, "I have been traduced. I have been slandered. I have been maligned.
( Ron Chernow )
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