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... Virginia and the West . In this respect Stephen A. Douglas resembled the Father of his Country . He had an inspiration for land , and he delighted to tell his friends what his country must be in the course of years , if our wilderness ...
... Virginia and the West . In this respect Stephen A. Douglas resembled the Father of his Country . He had an inspiration for land , and he delighted to tell his friends what his country must be in the course of years , if our wilderness ...
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... Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ever took place in the Senate Chamber - old or new - was that between Breckinridge and Colonel E. D. Baker , of Oregon , on the 1st of August , 1861 , five days before the adjournment sine ...
... Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ever took place in the Senate Chamber - old or new - was that between Breckinridge and Colonel E. D. Baker , of Oregon , on the 1st of August , 1861 , five days before the adjournment sine ...
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... Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North Carolina , Linn Boyd , of Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua Giddings , of Ohio , all gathered to their fathers . And there also were many yet ...
... Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North Carolina , Linn Boyd , of Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua Giddings , of Ohio , all gathered to their fathers . And there also were many yet ...
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... Virginia always had a supply of good speakers . Thomas H. Bayley , with his gold spectacles and ambrosial locks , and his Southern idiom , a compound of the negro and the scholar ; Charles James Faulkner , with his pleasant , smile ...
... Virginia always had a supply of good speakers . Thomas H. Bayley , with his gold spectacles and ambrosial locks , and his Southern idiom , a compound of the negro and the scholar ; Charles James Faulkner , with his pleasant , smile ...
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... Virginia , in the House of Representatives , on the 3d of September , 1850. That was the initiative period - the porch , so to speak , which intro- duced us to the arena of civil war ; and McDowell , like other patriots , stood upon its ...
... Virginia , in the House of Representatives , on the 3d of September , 1850. That was the initiative period - the porch , so to speak , which intro- duced us to the arena of civil war ; and McDowell , like other patriots , stood upon its ...
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