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Page 11
Indifferent to or ignorant of this fact , a large concourse of the Whigs of Washington City concluded to serenade Mr. Webster at his residence on Louisiana Avenue . I followed the procession . It was an exquisite . moonlight summer ...
Indifferent to or ignorant of this fact , a large concourse of the Whigs of Washington City concluded to serenade Mr. Webster at his residence on Louisiana Avenue . I followed the procession . It was an exquisite . moonlight summer ...
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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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His style was trenchant and elevated , and his facts generally impregnable . ... his own hospitable home , visiting strangers at their hotels , leading in debate or counseling in committee , he was rarely at fault for a date or a fact .
His style was trenchant and elevated , and his facts generally impregnable . ... his own hospitable home , visiting strangers at their hotels , leading in debate or counseling in committee , he was rarely at fault for a date or a fact .
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If I could sink so low , I might find additional evidence of the fact , over his own name , that my connection with the Forrest case never deprived me of a particle of his confidence and affection , which up to a ...
If I could sink so low , I might find additional evidence of the fact , over his own name , that my connection with the Forrest case never deprived me of a particle of his confidence and affection , which up to a ...
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lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to the fact that the wife of one of her best servants , Sam , was about to be sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty ...
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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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