Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) FROM 1862 TO 1868 Volume I. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE 920 F768 1873 V ...
... PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) FROM 1862 TO 1868 Volume I. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE 920 F768 1873 V ...
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... PARTY ( The washingtoON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) FROM 1862 TO 1868 Volume I. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE 920 F768 1873 V ...
... PARTY ( The washingtoON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY CHRONICLE ) FROM 1862 TO 1868 Volume I. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE 920 F768 1873 V ...
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... party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to Philadelphia , and stopped at Hartwell's Washington House , on Chestnut ...
... party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to Philadelphia , and stopped at Hartwell's Washington House , on Chestnut ...
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... party he had so honored and served . The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glo- rious ...
... party he had so honored and served . The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glo- rious ...
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... parties . The following verse from Byron closed the ar- ticle : to my man . " As the struck eagle , stretched upon the plain , No more through rolling clouds to soar again , Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart , And winged the ...
... parties . The following verse from Byron closed the ar- ticle : to my man . " As the struck eagle , stretched upon the plain , No more through rolling clouds to soar again , Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart , And winged the ...
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