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Page 16
... meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the 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 ...
... meet the gifted and polished Doctor . My own mind was far from clear as to the 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 ...
Page 17
... meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky , had come , in my absence , and ...
... meet my wife , instead of my children , at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky , had come , in my absence , and ...
Page 27
... meet his people . His magnificent campaign against the Southern policy of forcing slavery into Kansas had aroused the bitterest resentment , and the worst elements were organized against him in his own State . " I feel , my dear friend ...
... meet his people . His magnificent campaign against the Southern policy of forcing slavery into Kansas had aroused the bitterest resentment , and the worst elements were organized against him in his own State . " I feel , my dear friend ...
Page 31
... meet as bosom friends ; and when his last remains were borne to their repose , I followed among those who mourned the loss of one of the richest intel- lects and warmest hearts in the ranks of men . Few did more varied labor in life ...
... meet as bosom friends ; and when his last remains were borne to their repose , I followed among those who mourned the loss of one of the richest intel- lects and warmest hearts in the ranks of men . Few did more varied labor in life ...
Page 49
... meet their father - God in the same year , and only a few months apart . How bitter these Whigs and Democrats were ! How angry they got themselves , and how angry they made their re- spective friends ! And yet at the end of less than a ...
... meet their father - God in the same year , and only a few months apart . How bitter these Whigs and Democrats were ! How angry they got themselves , and how angry they made their re- spective friends ! And yet at the end of less than a ...
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