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... orator . Conrad came along from Philadelphia as a lecturer and Whig speaker . He was as much the idol of his party as Barton was of ours . They seemed to " take to " each other from the first , and when Barton moved to Philadelphia and ...
... orator . Conrad came along from Philadelphia as a lecturer and Whig speaker . He was as much the idol of his party as Barton was of ours . They seemed to " take to " each other from the first , and when Barton moved to Philadelphia and ...
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... orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid ...
... orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid ...
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... orator , and dramatist , and alternated from one practical post to the other ; was a good judge , a brave mayor of Philadelphia , and a vigor- ous railroad president . He lives in some of the finest lyrics of the language , and in his ...
... orator , and dramatist , and alternated from one practical post to the other ; was a good judge , a brave mayor of Philadelphia , and a vigor- ous railroad president . He lives in some of the finest lyrics of the language , and in his ...
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... orator proceeded in his well - considered speech . It will be recollected that the great point in issue in 1846 , so far as Texas was concerned , was the boundary between Texas and Mexico . Mr. Delano , with masterly ability , had ...
... orator proceeded in his well - considered speech . It will be recollected that the great point in issue in 1846 , so far as Texas was concerned , was the boundary between Texas and Mexico . Mr. Delano , with masterly ability , had ...
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... oratory were over , and that the men fittest for declamation generally prefer the plainest and most practical way of ... orators of other days- the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! South always predominated in ...
... oratory were over , and that the men fittest for declamation generally prefer the plainest and most practical way of ... orators of other days- the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! South always predominated in ...
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