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... a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew , stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help me out . " Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republi- can , " was his quick reply , and I finished ...
... Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew , stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help me out . " Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republi- can , " was his quick reply , and I finished ...
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... Jackson . It seems to have been ordain- ed that each was to be the last of his race , and that none should be left to eclipse his fame . The first time I ever saw John Quincy Adams was also the first time I ever saw Stephen A. Douglas ...
... Jackson . It seems to have been ordain- ed that each was to be the last of his race , and that none should be left to eclipse his fame . The first time I ever saw John Quincy Adams was also the first time I ever saw Stephen A. Douglas ...
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... not prevent him from be- coming the defiant enemy of that party after Andrew Jackson took command of it . Calhoun became a free - trader after hav- ing made some of the strongest arguments for protection , CHANGES OF OPINION. ...
... not prevent him from be- coming the defiant enemy of that party after Andrew Jackson took command of it . Calhoun became a free - trader after hav- ing made some of the strongest arguments for protection , CHANGES OF OPINION. ...
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... Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of Democrats became Republicans when they saw the treatment that Reeder and Douglas , and ...
... Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of Democrats became Republicans when they saw the treatment that Reeder and Douglas , and ...
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