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While I was in the midst of this struggle with the Administration of Mr. Buchanan , I visited New England to see ex - President Pierce . He was , as usual , in earnest sympathy with the extreme South ; but he received me and treated me ...
While I was in the midst of this struggle with the Administration of Mr. Buchanan , I visited New England to see ex - President Pierce . He was , as usual , in earnest sympathy with the extreme South ; but he received me and treated me ...
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Other Presidents and statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr. Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be ...
Other Presidents and statesmen were not so industrious , with perhaps the possible exception of Mr. Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be ...
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The diary of Mr. Buchanan will be a treasure to his historian . One realizes the broad distinction between memory and memoranda , in the attempt to make the one a substitute for the other . The written record of a Life , which is a ...
The diary of Mr. Buchanan will be a treasure to his historian . One realizes the broad distinction between memory and memoranda , in the attempt to make the one a substitute for the other . The written record of a Life , which is a ...
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James Buchanan was a frequent writer in my old paper , The Lancaster Intelligencer & Journal , and in The Pennsylvanian . His diction was cold and unsympathetic , but exact , clear , and condensed . His precise and elegant chirography ...
James Buchanan was a frequent writer in my old paper , The Lancaster Intelligencer & Journal , and in The Pennsylvanian . His diction was cold and unsympathetic , but exact , clear , and condensed . His precise and elegant chirography ...
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Writing of Thomas H. Benton recalls an incident that happened during the Presidency of James K. Polk , when Mr. Buchanan was Secretary of State . Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon question ...
Writing of Thomas H. Benton recalls an incident that happened during the Presidency of James K. Polk , when Mr. Buchanan was Secretary of State . Colonel Benton was a sharp thorn in the side of the Administration on the Oregon question ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1877 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2015 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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