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... sent up our cards , and were quickly ad- mitted to the great man's parlor . He looked feeble and worn -he was then over seventy - three years old - but he soon brightened . Anxious to rouse him , I quietly ventured to sug- gest that I ...
... sent up our cards , and were quickly ad- mitted to the great man's parlor . He looked feeble and worn -he was then over seventy - three years old - but he soon brightened . Anxious to rouse him , I quietly ventured to sug- gest that I ...
Page 13
... sent for me and told me that he believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South American States . I got through the struggle ...
... sent for me and told me that he believed I could not be renominated , but that he was resolved , if I was not , to send my name into the Senate for an important mission to one of the South American States . I got through the struggle ...
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... sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours , her master , a man living at Georgetown , D. C. , would be sure to sell her to strangers . The case was a ...
... sent away from him to Georgia , and that unless over eight hundred dollars could be raised for her in forty - eight hours , her master , a man living at Georgetown , D. C. , would be sure to sell her to strangers . The case was a ...
Page 55
... sent forth on the Chinese mission , he was true to that friend , and entered heartily into the extreme views of those who sympathized with the rebellion . Let us not forget that his very intensity in that strife was only a copy of his ...
... sent forth on the Chinese mission , he was true to that friend , and entered heartily into the extreme views of those who sympathized with the rebellion . Let us not forget that his very intensity in that strife was only a copy of his ...
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... sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of the United States by the Legislature of Pennsylvania , to fill the unexpired term of William Wilkins , resigned , who , in his turn , was sent ...
... sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of the United States by the Legislature of Pennsylvania , to fill the unexpired term of William Wilkins , resigned , who , in his turn , was sent ...
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