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... honor till late in the evening . Short- hand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which re- solved to print the great man's speech entire , would be delayed till ...
... honor till late in the evening . Short- hand reporting was not then what it is now , a swift , accurate , and magical science ; and I knew the Whig papers , which re- solved to print the great man's speech entire , would be delayed till ...
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... honored and served . The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glo- rious Scott , had gone ...
... honored and served . The brilliant effort of Rufus Choate to make him the candidate in the Baltimore Whig National Convention , though ineffectual to prevent the foreordained selection of the brave but vain - glo- rious Scott , had gone ...
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... honor to vote for James G. Birney for Presi- dent in 1844 , being one of a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR ...
... honor to vote for James G. Birney for Presi- dent in 1844 , being one of a very , very small party , which will soon control Pennsylvania by an Andrew Jackson majority , we had a strange character among us who occasionally made DR ...
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... honored . I had left without regret ; there remained no tie of blood to bind me to any being in existence . If I fell in the struggle for reputation and fortune , there was no relative on earth to mourn my fall . The people of ...
... honored . I had left without regret ; there remained no tie of blood to bind me to any being in existence . If I fell in the struggle for reputation and fortune , there was no relative on earth to mourn my fall . The people of ...
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John Wien Forney. live to be even more honored in the years to come . " No , " he said , with a sad smile I shall never forget ; " no , it is best ; I am doomed . You will live to write of me and to keep my memory green ; and now good ...
John Wien Forney. live to be even more honored in the years to come . " No , " he said , with a sad smile I shall never forget ; " no , it is best ; I am doomed . You will live to write of me and to keep my memory green ; and now good ...
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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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