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Page 48
... Senate , Clay , Calhoun , Web- ster , Benton , still shaped the destinies and restrained the passions of men ; and men of great ability stood forth in the lower House . Mr. Lincoln was opposed to the annex- ation of Texas and to the ...
... Senate , Clay , Calhoun , Web- ster , Benton , still shaped the destinies and restrained the passions of men ; and men of great ability stood forth in the lower House . Mr. Lincoln was opposed to the annex- ation of Texas and to the ...
Page 49
... Senate . Mr. Douglas was his rival on the Democratic ticket . Both stumped the State , and finally held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge Douglas had the ...
... Senate . Mr. Douglas was his rival on the Democratic ticket . Both stumped the State , and finally held personal debates with each other without personal animosity on the dif ferent political views they held . Judge Douglas had the ...
Page 51
... Senate , but you may take me and put me to death . While pretending no indifference to earthly honors , I do claim to be actuated in this contest by some- thing higher than an anxiety for office . I charge you to drop every paltry and ...
... Senate , but you may take me and put me to death . While pretending no indifference to earthly honors , I do claim to be actuated in this contest by some- thing higher than an anxiety for office . I charge you to drop every paltry and ...
Page 65
... senate ; like Hans Luther's plebeian and beetle - browed son confronting the stoled , mitred , and ermined Diet of Charles the Fifth ; like a red - nosed , cropped , and mail - clad Cromwell , shuffling through the silken splendors ...
... senate ; like Hans Luther's plebeian and beetle - browed son confronting the stoled , mitred , and ermined Diet of Charles the Fifth ; like a red - nosed , cropped , and mail - clad Cromwell , shuffling through the silken splendors ...
Page 69
... Senate as fol- lows : - “ MR . PRESIDENT , and GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY , - --- “ I am very grateful to you for the honorable recep- tion of which I have been the object . I cannot but remember the place that ...
... Senate as fol- lows : - “ MR . PRESIDENT , and GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY , - --- “ I am very grateful to you for the honorable recep- tion of which I have been the object . I cannot but remember the place that ...
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