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... remember a dinner - 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 ...
... remember a dinner - 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 ...
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... remember - who of middle age does not ? -when the proposition made to tax the people of Phila- delphia and the State for the construction of the Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were over- whelmed by sinister ...
... remember - who of middle age does not ? -when the proposition made to tax the people of Phila- delphia and the State for the construction of the Pennsylvania Central roused a hurricane of opposition . We were over- whelmed by sinister ...
Page 34
... Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republi- can , " was his quick reply , and I finished my remarks as best I could . Jackson was elected to Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term ...
... Remember it yourself , you infernal Black Republi- can , " was his quick reply , and I finished my remarks as best I could . Jackson was elected to Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term ...
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... remember some of the orators of other days- the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhet- ORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN ...
... remember some of the orators of other days- the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhet- ORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN ...
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... remember those days ? Colonel James Page , Benjamin Harris Brewster , George W. Barton , Horn R. Kneass , Henry M. Phillips , Henry Simp- son , William Badger , Ellis B. Schnable , and last , not least , Hen- ry Horn , were among the ...
... remember those days ? Colonel James Page , Benjamin Harris Brewster , George W. Barton , Horn R. Kneass , Henry M. Phillips , Henry Simp- son , William Badger , Ellis B. Schnable , and last , not least , Hen- ry Horn , were among the ...
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