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... politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred ...
... politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player , you can at least do justice to the motive that has led me to speak of all of them impartially and generously . Instead of One Hundred ...
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... political friends , he delighted to welcome his political adversa- lies , and to make them at home . Let me give one specimen of his liberality . It was my misfortune to differ from the South- ern leaders at an early day , and they ...
... political friends , he delighted to welcome his political adversa- lies , and to make them at home . Let me give one specimen of his liberality . It was my misfortune to differ from the South- ern leaders at an early day , and they ...
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... politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and shameless policy of the present ...
... politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and shameless policy of the present ...
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... political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he ...
... political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he ...
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... political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages . Let the war go on , however , and soon , in addition to the moans of widows and orphans all over this land , you will hear the cry of distress from those ...
... political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages . Let the war go on , however , and soon , in addition to the moans of widows and orphans all over this land , you will hear the cry of distress from those ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1877 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2015 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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