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From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate actors , whether statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player ...
From Franklin Pierce to Ulysses S. Grant , including most of the intermediate actors , whether statesmen or lawyers , soldiers or politicians , men of work or men of leisure , the artist or the artisan , the priest or the player ...
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I walked to my editorial den and wrote a leader on the scene , so full of the emptiness of human ambition and the ingratitude of political parties . The following verse from Byron closed the article : “ As the struck eagle , stretched ...
I walked to my editorial den and wrote a leader on the scene , so full of the emptiness of human ambition and the ingratitude of political parties . The following verse from Byron closed the article : “ As the struck eagle , stretched ...
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In the present condition of 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 ...
In the present condition of 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 ...
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I have always believed that he espoused the Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end his political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a ...
I have always believed that he espoused the Confederacy , if not reluctantly , at least in the conviction that it would forever end his political career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a ...
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... it is only made worse by war , and ; an utter extinction of all those sentiments of common interest and feeling which might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages .
... it is only made worse by war , and ; an utter extinction of all those sentiments of common interest and feeling which might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent and upon a conviction of its advantages .
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