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BY JOHN W. FORNEY . ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE WASHINGTON SUNDAY CHRONICLE AND PHILADELPHIA PRESS . MAMIAATA Tài NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE . 1 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the 1877A.
BY JOHN W. FORNEY . ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE WASHINGTON SUNDAY CHRONICLE AND PHILADELPHIA PRESS . MAMIAATA Tài NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE . 1 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the 1877A.
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1 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1873 , by HARPER & BROTHERS , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND.
1 Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1873 , by HARPER & BROTHERS , In the Office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND.
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... heard the speech of Pierre Soulé , Senator in Congress from Louisiana - an extremist especially distasteful to Mr. Clay -- and that I thought it a very thorough and able presentation of the side adverse to the Compromise Measures .
... heard the speech of Pierre Soulé , Senator in Congress from Louisiana - an extremist especially distasteful to Mr. Clay -- and that I thought it a very thorough and able presentation of the side adverse to the Compromise Measures .
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... to go out to look on the monument to Stephen A. Douglas , on the shore of Lake Michigan ; the next to visit the massive buildings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company , the enterprise which he alone carried through Congress .
... to go out to look on the monument to Stephen A. Douglas , on the shore of Lake Michigan ; the next to visit the massive buildings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company , the enterprise which he alone carried through Congress .
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in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly esteemed for his ...
in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly esteemed for his ...
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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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