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But while Tom Van Dorn slept upon the assurance of victory , Nate Perry was perturbed . When Mortimer Sands came down town Saturday morning , two hours before the convention met , he found the courthouse yard black with prospective delegates and also he found that the Judge 's friends were in a majority in the crowd . So evident was their ascendancy that the Nesbit forces had conceded to the Judge the right to organize the convention . At eleven o'clock the crowd , merchants , clerks , professional men , working men in their Sunday clothes , delegates from the surrounding country towns , and farmers -- a throng of three hundred men , began to crowd into the hot `` Opera House . '' So young Mr. Sands , with his finger in a book to keep his place , followed the crowd to the hall , and took his seat with the Fourth Ward delegation . Having done this he considered that his full duty to God and man had been performed . He found Nathan Perry sitting beside him and said : `` Well , Nate , here 's where Anne 's great heart breaks -- I suppose ? ''