With a hope of getting a few crumbs that may fall from the official table they make wry faces and pretend to be satisfied with what is being done, and with the way in which it is done.

They are looked upon with suspicion and their loyalty to the new order of things is a constant source of speculation, conjecture, and doubt.

But, for reasons of political expediency, a few crumbs are allowed occasionally to go to some one of that class,--crumbs that are gratefully acknowledged and thankfully received, upon the theory that some little consideration is better than none at all, especially in their present helpless and dependent condition.

But even these small crumbs are confined to those who are most pronounced and outspoken in their declarations and protestations of loyalty, devotion, and subservient submission to the new order of things..