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Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND UNFORGETTING . ml eneral I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men ...
Elth F ( 1 TO DANIEL DOUGHERTY : UNFORGOTTEN AND UNFORGETTING . ml eneral I HAVE known you , my dear Dougherty , for nearly thirty years ; when your hair , now turning gray , was glossy black ; when both of us were struggling young men ...
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... used as a candidate for re - election ; but he said : “ I do not complain of you , my friend , for going with your State for Mr. Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President .
... used as a candidate for re - election ; but he said : “ I do not complain of you , my friend , for going with your State for Mr. Buchanan , whom you have known so long , though I fear you will be disappointed if he is President .
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It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street , back of The Chronicle office , where I resided up to 1856 , when I left Washington to help make Mr. Buchanan President , and never returned ...
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I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on foreign and domestic palitics , on est , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive skocessos , Ceneral .
I have known him to stand up to his tall desk and dash off column after column on foreign and domestic palitics , on est , on finance , with astonishing rapidity and ease . Unlike his aggressive skocessos , Ceneral .
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Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a reception at the British Minister's , and in one of the currents of the throng was carried into a corner where they were serving out the seductive compound known as ...
Just before returning to my post in Philadelphia I was invited to a reception at the British Minister's , and in one of the currents of the throng was carried into a corner where they were serving out the seductive compound known as ...
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