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... President Pierce sent for me and told me that he believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South American States .
... President Pierce sent for me and told me that he believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South American States .
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There were present some twenty of the leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder , my friend at that day , though we ...
There were present some twenty of the leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder , my friend at that day , though we ...
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The Democracy had just been unhorsed , right and left , North and South , by the Know - Nothing storm , and the old leaders knew that meant something more than hostility to foreigners and Catholics , and was in fact the first mutterings ...
The Democracy had just been unhorsed , right and left , North and South , by the Know - Nothing storm , and the old leaders knew that meant something more than hostility to foreigners and Catholics , and was in fact the first mutterings ...
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Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay ...
Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay ...
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... which it feeds in turn , and with its manifold tributaries capable of extending itself to all the nations of the South , giving wealth to them in bounteous supply , and receiving in exchange other riches and bounties .
... which it feeds in turn , and with its manifold tributaries capable of extending itself to all the nations of the South , giving wealth to them in bounteous supply , and receiving in exchange other riches and bounties .
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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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