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... Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President . " I could not approve the removal of Governor Reeder , of Kansas , for his refusal to help to make Kansas a slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 ...
... Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President . " I could not approve the removal of Governor Reeder , of Kansas , for his refusal to help to make Kansas a slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 ...
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... Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be unstained by the use of any pri- vate correspondence , as we have the assurance from the high ...
... Buchanan , whose biography has not appeared , owing to unexpected events . When it is published , we have his own pledge that it will be unstained by the use of any pri- vate correspondence , as we have the assurance from the high ...
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... Buchanan will be a treasure to his historian . One realizes the broad distinction between memory and mem- oranda , in the attempt to make the one a substitute for the other . The written record of a Life , which is a photograph of every ...
... Buchanan will be a treasure to his historian . One realizes the broad distinction between memory and mem- oranda , in the attempt to make the one a substitute for the other . The written record of a Life , which is a photograph of every ...
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... 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 was the ...
... 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 was the ...
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... Buchanan , and there waited for the summons . None came , however . Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia ... Buchanan and Benton never were intimate friends , the latter went to Cincinnati in 1856 , to , advocate Buchanan as ...
... Buchanan , and there waited for the summons . None came , however . Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia ... Buchanan and Benton never were intimate friends , the latter went to Cincinnati in 1856 , to , advocate Buchanan as ...
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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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