The Struggle Of'72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign: Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President and Vice-president; History and Platforms of the Great Political Parties; Facts about Public Men and Measures; Review of Grant's Administration; the Queer Record of Horace Greeley |
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... never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unim- paired , and , on the sensitive point , the ...
... never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unim- paired , and , on the sensitive point , the ...
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... so that notwithstanding the war , the people continued to be prosperous , and remain highly prosperous to this day . The soldiers and sailors were promptly paid . There never was any discontent either in the army or navy . The people ( 40 )
... so that notwithstanding the war , the people continued to be prosperous , and remain highly prosperous to this day . The soldiers and sailors were promptly paid . There never was any discontent either in the army or navy . The people ( 40 )
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... never regarded with indifference the attempt of any European power to overthrow by force , or to supplant by fraud , the in- stitutions of any republican government on the western continent , 48 THE STRUGGLE OF '72 .
... never regarded with indifference the attempt of any European power to overthrow by force , or to supplant by fraud , the in- stitutions of any republican government on the western continent , 48 THE STRUGGLE OF '72 .
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... never to be forgotten ; the widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of the people - a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation's protecting care . II . Foreign immigration , which in the past has added so much to the wealth ...
... never to be forgotten ; the widows and orphans of the gallant dead are the wards of the people - a sacred legacy bequeathed to the nation's protecting care . II . Foreign immigration , which in the past has added so much to the wealth ...
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... never ceased to grow ; labor has been well paid , and the laboring man has constantly grown in the public esteem and in power ; the development of all the material interests of the land has simply been stu- pendous . Even the South ...
... never ceased to grow ; labor has been well paid , and the laboring man has constantly grown in the public esteem and in power ; the development of all the material interests of the land has simply been stu- pendous . Even the South ...
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