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... 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 flash as I ...
... 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 flash as I ...
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... a useful member of the convention that adopted the first California constitution , and was two years in the State Senate , and president of that body . In 1856 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years from the 4th of March V. ...
... a useful member of the convention that adopted the first California constitution , and was two years in the State Senate , and president of that body . In 1856 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years from the 4th of March V. ...
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John Wien Forney. in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 ... Senator began his career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was ...
John Wien Forney. in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 ... Senator began his career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was ...
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... Senator from Illinois in spite of " my Lord Cardinal ; " Broderick had been killed in the previous September ... Congress from the three States of New Jersey , New York , and Pennsylvania , they got but two from the first , but five from ...
... Senator from Illinois in spite of " my Lord Cardinal ; " Broderick had been killed in the previous September ... Congress from the three States of New Jersey , New York , and Pennsylvania , they got but two from the first , but five from ...
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... Senator in Congress from Kentucky when the Buchanan régime expired , taking his seat on the very day that his venerable chief retired to Wheatland ; and he remained a Senator in Congress till the close of the called session , which ...
... Senator in Congress from Kentucky when the Buchanan régime expired , taking his seat on the very day that his venerable chief retired to Wheatland ; and he remained a Senator in Congress till the close of the called session , which ...
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