Deputations from all parts of the Union worried him incessantly.

He was forced to receive them whether he would or no.

The hands he shook could not be counted; he was soon completely worn out, his voice became hoarse in consequence of his innumerable speeches, and only escaped from his lips in unintelligible sounds, and he nearly caught a gastro-enterite after the toasts he proposed to the Union.

This success would have intoxicated another man from the first, but he managed to stay in a _spirituelle_ and charming demi-inebriety.
Amongst the deputations of every sort that assailed him, that of the "Lunatics" did not forget what they owed to the future conqueror of the moon.

One day some of these poor creatures, numerous enough in America, went to him and asked to return with him to their native country.