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I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men . You have met most of the characters I have attempted to describe in ...
I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men . You have met most of the characters I have attempted to describe in ...
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... used as a candidate for re - election ; but he said : “ I do not complain of you , my friend , for going with your State for Mr. Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President .
... used as a candidate for re - election ; but he said : “ I do not complain of you , my friend , for going with your State for Mr. Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President .
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It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
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I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on foreign and domestic politics , on art , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive successor , General Cushing is anxious to ...
I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on foreign and domestic politics , on art , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive successor , General Cushing is anxious to ...
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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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| 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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