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... offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that posi- tion remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept . Mentioning his 1850 re- fusal and his present disinclination , the old ...
... offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that posi- tion remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept . Mentioning his 1850 re- fusal and his present disinclination , the old ...
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... offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to guess it . Bates and Seward were discussed as being already in the cabinet ...
... offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to guess it . Bates and Seward were discussed as being already in the cabinet ...
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... offer to relinquish a point of party doctrine in the public interest must necessarily be told to many statesmen . without delay . Foreseeing this , and foreseeing also the danger that his offer might alienate important radical ...
... offer to relinquish a point of party doctrine in the public interest must necessarily be told to many statesmen . without delay . Foreseeing this , and foreseeing also the danger that his offer might alienate important radical ...
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NOVEMBER SIXTH | 3 |
A FABIAN FORTNIGHT | 7 |
SECESSION SALVOS | 41 |
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