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... party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to Philadelphia , and stopped at Hartwell's Washington House , on Chestnut ...
... party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to Philadelphia , and stopped at Hartwell's Washington House , on Chestnut ...
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... party he had so 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 ...
... party he had so 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 ...
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... parties . The following verse from Byron closed the ar- ticle : " As the struck eagle , stretched upon the plain , No more through rolling clouds to soar again , Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart , And winged the shaft that ...
... parties . The following verse from Byron closed the ar- ticle : " As the struck eagle , stretched upon the plain , No more through rolling clouds to soar again , Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart , And winged the shaft that ...
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... party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart . It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street ...
... party at the time I lived in Washington during the administration of General Pierce , which requires no diary to keep fresh in my heart . It took place at my residence , and in the house now known as the Waverley , on Eighth Street ...
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... 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 unhorsed , right and left ...
... 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 unhorsed , right and left ...
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