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... 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 . I saw the old man's eye ...
... 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 . I saw the old man's eye ...
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... Pierre Soulé , a Senator from the same State , was a different , yet as peculiar a type . His swarthy complexion , black , flashing eyes , and Frenchified dress and speech , made him one of the attractions of the Senate . He is now in ...
... Pierre Soulé , a Senator from the same State , was a different , yet as peculiar a type . His swarthy complexion , black , flashing eyes , and Frenchified dress and speech , made him one of the attractions of the Senate . He is now in ...
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... Pierre Soulé , the brilliant and superficial Frenchman , passed away after the saddest closing years . His friend Howell Cobb has gone . His confrère , Jesse D. Bright , has left Indiana to become a member of the Kentucky Legislature ...
... Pierre Soulé , the brilliant and superficial Frenchman , passed away after the saddest closing years . His friend Howell Cobb has gone . His confrère , Jesse D. Bright , has left Indiana to become a member of the Kentucky Legislature ...
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... Pierre Soulé , with his handsome , haughty face , true types and apostles of the pe- culiar institution , I wonder how they would feel to see the South represented in a National Convention by their former slaves . A little more than ten ...
... Pierre Soulé , with his handsome , haughty face , true types and apostles of the pe- culiar institution , I wonder how they would feel to see the South represented in a National Convention by their former slaves . A little more than ten ...
Page 443
... Soulé , Pierre , on the Compromise Meas- ures , 9 ; character of , 57 . South , brilliant rhetoric of the , 57 . Southern Congressmen , 57 ; institutions , 17 ; slaveholders , grotesque manners and hab- its of , 194 . Speaker , election ...
... Soulé , Pierre , on the Compromise Meas- ures , 9 ; character of , 57 . South , brilliant rhetoric of the , 57 . Southern Congressmen , 57 ; institutions , 17 ; slaveholders , grotesque manners and hab- its of , 194 . Speaker , election ...
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