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... Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it during all the working years of his working life . Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour , when he ...
... Adams is the best monument of his stupendous industry . He kept it during all the working years of his working life . Reared to scholarship , diplomacy , and statecraft , he began it with his youth , and to the final hour , when he ...
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... gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to regret . [ March 12 , 1871. ] X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
... gallant Baker of Oregon , whose prediction of the collapse of the rebellion he has lived to realize , and , I hope , not to regret . [ March 12 , 1871. ] X. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS was a Representative in Congress from JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
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... Adams was also the first time I ever saw Stephen A. Douglas . This was in May of 1846 , while Polk was President , and James Buchanan Secretary of State . The annexation of Texas was the reigning issue . Parties were divided upon it ...
... Adams was also the first time I ever saw Stephen A. Douglas . This was in May of 1846 , while Polk was President , and James Buchanan Secretary of State . The annexation of Texas was the reigning issue . Parties were divided upon it ...
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... Adams and Winthrop , of Massachusetts , Collamer and Foot , of Vermont ( both after- ward in the Senate and since dead ) , Preston King , of New York ( afterward a Senator and since dead ) , Brodhead , Charles J. Ingersoll , Joseph R ...
... Adams and Winthrop , of Massachusetts , Collamer and Foot , of Vermont ( both after- ward in the Senate and since dead ) , Preston King , of New York ( afterward a Senator and since dead ) , Brodhead , Charles J. Ingersoll , Joseph R ...
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... Adams . I shall never forget that sweet and odor- ous 13th of May , 1846. Nowhere , as it seems to me , is there an ... Adams listened ADAMS AND DOUGLAS . 51 to the young member from 50 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... Adams . I shall never forget that sweet and odor- ous 13th of May , 1846. Nowhere , as it seems to me , is there an ... Adams listened ADAMS AND DOUGLAS . 51 to the young member from 50 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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