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Page 11
... Measures " of 1850 - Election of Mr. Pierce to the Presidency - Repeal of the Missouri Compromise , and Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Bill - Judge Douglas and Popular Sovereignty - Meeting of Douglas and Lincoln at Springfield - At ...
... Measures " of 1850 - Election of Mr. Pierce to the Presidency - Repeal of the Missouri Compromise , and Passage of the Kansas- Nebraska Bill - Judge Douglas and Popular Sovereignty - Meeting of Douglas and Lincoln at Springfield - At ...
Page 14
... Measures of Congress - Opin- ions of the President - Western Virginia admitted to the Union - Representatives from Louisiana admitted to Congress - Peace Agitations - Course of Vailandigham of Ohio - His Arrest by General Burnside ...
... Measures of Congress - Opin- ions of the President - Western Virginia admitted to the Union - Representatives from Louisiana admitted to Congress - Peace Agitations - Course of Vailandigham of Ohio - His Arrest by General Burnside ...
Page 59
... measure the sacrifice which adherence to his convictions cost him . early love of Henry Clay has already been noticed ; and this love for the great Kentuckian , though circumstances modified it somewhat , never ceased . He clung to him ...
... measure the sacrifice which adherence to his convictions cost him . early love of Henry Clay has already been noticed ; and this love for the great Kentuckian , though circumstances modified it somewhat , never ceased . He clung to him ...
Page 61
... measurement , the incident is truly recorded ; and it illustrates more forcibly than words can describe the man's ingenuity in the quick in- vention of moral expedients , then and afterwards . His life had been a life of expedients . He ...
... measurement , the incident is truly recorded ; and it illustrates more forcibly than words can describe the man's ingenuity in the quick in- vention of moral expedients , then and afterwards . His life had been a life of expedients . He ...
Page 68
... measure with this legislature was the adoption of a general system of public improvements . It was a great object with the special friends of this measure to secure the co - operation and support of the two senators and nine repre ...
... measure with this legislature was the adoption of a general system of public improvements . It was a great object with the special friends of this measure to secure the co - operation and support of the two senators and nine repre ...
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