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OF PUBLIC MEN Ν BY JOHN W. FORNEY WHILE HE WAS CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SECRETARY OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF ...
OF PUBLIC MEN Ν BY JOHN W. FORNEY WHILE HE WAS CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SECRETARY OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EDITOR OF THE ORGAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ( THE WASHINGTON DAILY UNION ) FROM 1851 TO 1855 AND EDITOR OF ...
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Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as the American ...
Written in the turmoil of great excitement at Washington , while I was in a high official position , and in Philadelphia after I had voluntarily resigned all office , and in a foreign country when I was acting as the American ...
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Repeated North and South , as the most finished tribute ever paid by genius to patriotism , its influence was the greater because it added more than cighty thousand dollars to the amount necessary to purchase the Washington estate from ...
Repeated North and South , as the most finished tribute ever paid by genius to patriotism , its influence was the greater because it added more than cighty thousand dollars to the amount necessary to purchase the Washington estate from ...
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As early as 1819 , when Washington city was a wild desert of a place , and when a journey from New England took longer than a journey to Russia to - day , he pronounced a sermon in the Capitol which literally took the scholars and ...
As early as 1819 , when Washington city was a wild desert of a place , and when a journey from New England took longer than a journey to Russia to - day , he pronounced a sermon in the Capitol which literally took the scholars and ...
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It was originally displayed on the ist of January , 1776 , from the headquarters of Washington , whose lines of circumvallation around beleaguered Boston traversed the fair spot where we now stand ; and as it was first given to the ...
It was originally displayed on the ist of January , 1776 , from the headquarters of Washington , whose lines of circumvallation around beleaguered Boston traversed the fair spot where we now stand ; and as it was first given to the ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1881 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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