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... United States , and one of the editors of the Washington Union , pub- lished by that fine specimen of manhood , General Robert Arm- strong , of Tennessee . Every body knew that Mr. Webster keenly felt his rejection by the party he had ...
... United States , and one of the editors of the Washington Union , pub- lished by that fine specimen of manhood , General Robert Arm- strong , of Tennessee . Every body knew that Mr. Webster keenly felt his rejection by the party he had ...
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... United States Sen- ate he also magnanimously elected his adversary , Dr. W. M. Gwin , for the short term . But he was not long in Washington before he realized that the new President was his foe , and that the solemn pledge of justice ...
... United States Sen- ate he also magnanimously elected his adversary , Dr. W. M. Gwin , for the short term . But he was not long in Washington before he realized that the new President was his foe , and that the solemn pledge of justice ...
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John Wien Forney. CONRAD AND BARTON . 29 hardly a county in the United States of which this statement is not true , more or less . There is not a reader of these sketches who can not point out eminent men of his own acquaintance who ...
John Wien Forney. CONRAD AND BARTON . 29 hardly a county in the United States of which this statement is not true , more or less . There is not a reader of these sketches who can not point out eminent men of his own acquaintance who ...
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... United States , though not so long as that of 1855-56 , when General Banks was chosen , was equally exciting ; and when ex - Governor William Pennington , of New Jersey , was de- clared presiding officer of that body on the 1st , the ...
... United States , though not so long as that of 1855-56 , when General Banks was chosen , was equally exciting ; and when ex - Governor William Pennington , of New Jersey , was de- clared presiding officer of that body on the 1st , the ...
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... United States Senator in 1857 , and in the repeated voluntary ten- ders of distinguished official position by the present President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of his ...
... United States Senator in 1857 , and in the repeated voluntary ten- ders of distinguished official position by the present President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of 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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