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Page 17
... and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky , had come , in my absence , and carried them down South into slavery ?
... and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky , had come , in my absence , and carried them down South into slavery ?
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We were overwhelmed by sinister prophecies ; and yet the seed sown by the success of that proposition has already produced a work which in another generation will carry the trade of the Orient through Philadelphia , and open to it a ...
We were overwhelmed by sinister prophecies ; and yet the seed sown by the success of that proposition has already produced a work which in another generation will carry the trade of the Orient through Philadelphia , and open to it a ...
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... to go out to look on the monument to Stephen A. Douglas , on the shore of Lake Michigan ; the next to visit the massive buildings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company , the enterprise which he alone carried through Congress .
... to go out to look on the monument to Stephen A. Douglas , on the shore of Lake Michigan ; the next to visit the massive buildings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company , the enterprise which he alone carried through Congress .
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Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a reception at the British Minister's , and in one of the currents of the throng was carried into a corner where they were serving out the seductive compound known as ...
Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a reception at the British Minister's , and in one of the currents of the throng was carried into a corner where they were serving out the seductive compound known as ...
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The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemption of California . The people rose at the sight of a tragedy so deliberate ...
The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemption of California . The people rose at the sight of a tragedy so deliberate ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1873 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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