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... very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR . WILLIAM ELDER . 17 speeches against slavery , 16 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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... Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were over- whelmed by sinister prophecies ; and yet the seed sown by the success of that proposition has already produced a work which in another generation will carry the trade ...
... Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were over- whelmed by sinister prophecies ; and yet the seed sown by the success of that proposition has already produced a work which in another generation will carry the trade ...
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... Pennsylvania , by a unanimous vote , put me at the head of their delegation to the Republican National Convention , to vote for General Grant as their candi- date for President . The first thing I did , after getting to Chi- cago , was ...
... Pennsylvania , by a unanimous vote , put me at the head of their delegation to the Republican National Convention , to vote for General Grant as their candi- date for President . The first thing I did , after getting to Chi- cago , was ...
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... Pennsylvania a little more than twenty years ago who came partly within this category . They were , indeed , known far beyond their vicinity ; but as they did not . seek for notoriety , they are not as well remembered as if they had ...
... Pennsylvania a little more than twenty years ago who came partly within this category . They were , indeed , known far beyond their vicinity ; but as they did not . seek for notoriety , they are not as well remembered as if they had ...
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... Pennsylvania and the Democratic conventions resounded with his unparalleled eloquence , and when he reached San Francisco he leaped into a practice that promised to lead all others . His last speech in that city is still spoken of as ...
... Pennsylvania and the Democratic conventions resounded with his unparalleled eloquence , and when he reached San Francisco he leaped into a practice that promised to lead all others . His last speech in that city is still spoken of 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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