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I had taken his old speech on free trade , delivered in 1824 , when he was a member of the House , and converted it into a Supplement , of which many DANIEL WEBSTER . II thousands were printed and sold before IO ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN ...
I had taken his old speech on free trade , delivered in 1824 , when he was a member of the House , and converted it into a Supplement , of which many DANIEL WEBSTER . II thousands were printed and sold before IO ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN ...
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II thousands were printed and sold before the joke was discovered . The Democrats were delighted — the Whigs furious , especially Mr. Greeley , of The Tribune , who had come over to hear Mr. Webster , and who bought several copies of ...
II thousands were printed and sold before the joke was discovered . The Democrats were delighted — the Whigs furious , especially Mr. Greeley , of The Tribune , who had come over to hear Mr. Webster , and who bought several copies of ...
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He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war that resulted from the absence of a little courage to maintain the most solemn pledge ever made to a confiding people .
He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to realize his mistake ; but he passed off before the war that resulted from the absence of a little courage to maintain the most solemn pledge ever made to a confiding people .
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It may also have the effect of arousing the two hundred thousand men with pure skins in South Carolina , who are now degraded and despised by thirty thousand aristocratic slaveholders . It may teach them to demand what is the power ...
It may also have the effect of arousing the two hundred thousand men with pure skins in South Carolina , who are now degraded and despised by thirty thousand aristocratic slaveholders . It may teach them to demand what is the power ...
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I would not have alluded to this if it were not for the remarks of the Senator from South Carolina ; and the thousands who know that I am the son of an artisan and have been a mechanic , would feel disappointed in me if I did not reply ...
I would not have alluded to this if it were not for the remarks of the Senator from South Carolina ; and the thousands who know that I am the son of an artisan and have been a mechanic , would feel disappointed in me if I did not reply ...
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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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