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... justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally in- tended , you will find interwoven into these pages four times as many ...
... justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred Anecdotes of Public Men , as originally in- tended , you will find interwoven into these pages four times as many ...
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... justice to Kansas , which alone elected him . 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 ...
... justice to Kansas , which alone elected him . 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 ...
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... justice of the course of my party in regard to Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections . The De- mocracy had just been ...
... justice of the course of my party in regard to Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections . The De- mocracy had just been ...
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... justice to Kansas ; that he would check the design of forcing slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others ...
... justice to Kansas ; that he would check the design of forcing slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others ...
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... justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York ...
... justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York ...
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