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" I was the worst beaten man who ever ran for high office," he wrote Colonel Tappan, " and I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none too... "
Life of Schuyler Colfax - Page 387
by Ovando James Hollister - 1886 - 535 pages
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History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 ...: 1866-1872

James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1906 - 480 pages
...ran for high office. And I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest...soon for she had suffered too deeply and too long. 1 laid her in the ground with hard dry eyes. Well I am used up. I cannot see before me. I have slept...
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Recollections

Washington Gladden - New York (N.Y.) - 1909 - 468 pages
...I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, and none too soon, for she had suffered too deeply and...still hard to close, while they soon open again." Some sense of the vast injustice which partisan passion had done this man seemed to take possession...
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A Political History of the State of New York: 1861-1882

De Alva Standwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1909 - 592 pages
...(1872), 400.697. " George W. Julian, Political Recollections, p. 348. " He died November 29, 1872. " " In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none...Well, I am used up. I cannot see before me. I have siept little for weeks and my eyes are stlll hard to close, whlle they soon open again." Letter to...
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Recollections

Washington Gladden - New York (N.Y.) - 1909 - 468 pages
...ran for high office. And I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, and none too soon, for she had suffered too deeply and too long. I laid her in the ground with hard...
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Ulysses S. Grant

Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...wrote Colonel Tappan, " and I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest...still hard to close, while they soon open again." Before the Electoral College met he died broken in heart and mind. But Grant's great personal triumph...
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Ulysses S. Grant

Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...wrote Colonel Tappan, " and I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running for President or the Penitentiary. In the darkest...laid her in the ground with hard, dry eyes. Well, I a1n used up; I cannot see before me. I have slept little for weeks, and my eyes are still hard to close,...
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The American Mercury, Volume 1

George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Periodicals - 1924 - 608 pages
...of her, just as her husband had failed in his last great political struggle, was too much to bear. "In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none...long. I laid her in the ground with hard dry eyes." But the memory that lingers with one most is that she was "crazy for knowledge." What a profound and...
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Highlights History Amer Press

Ford - American newspapers - 1999 - 412 pages
...of her, just as her husband had failed in his last great political struggle, was too much to bear. "In the darkest hour my suffering wife left me, none...long. I laid her in the ground with hard dry eyes." But the memory that lingers with one most is that she was "crazy for knowledge." What a profound and...
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Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom

Robert C. Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 562 pages
...whether I was running for President or for the Penitentiary. In the darkest hour of my suffering my wife left me, none too soon, for she had suffered...the ground with hard, dry eyes. Well, I am used up." Greeley felt "beyond tears" now. When Josiah Grinnell visited Greeley in New York after the election,...
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