Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... Union , thus increasing the number of Senators from seventy - four to ninety . The years mentioned likewise witnessed the passing from the national stage , with few exceptions , of the men who had taken a conspicuous part in the great ...
... Union , thus increasing the number of Senators from seventy - four to ninety . The years mentioned likewise witnessed the passing from the national stage , with few exceptions , of the men who had taken a conspicuous part in the great ...
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... Union since the formation of the Govern- ment . Beginning with the debates in the convention that formulated the Federal Constitution , it remained for seventy years the apple of discord , the subject of patriotic appre- hension and ...
... Union since the formation of the Govern- ment . Beginning with the debates in the convention that formulated the Federal Constitution , it remained for seventy years the apple of discord , the subject of patriotic appre- hension and ...
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... Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway , where the serious question was how to ...
... Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway , where the serious question was how to ...
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... Union . Judge Reagan was a gentleman of recognized ability , and of exceed- ingly courteous and dignified bearing . An old - time statesman , on the same side of the Chamber , was the Hon . Fernando Wood of New York . A generation had ...
... Union . Judge Reagan was a gentleman of recognized ability , and of exceed- ingly courteous and dignified bearing . An old - time statesman , on the same side of the Chamber , was the Hon . Fernando Wood of New York . A generation had ...
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... union , it stands unsur- passed among the great masterpieces of ancient or modern eloquence . Later , Mr. Lamar was a prominent participant in one of the fiercest debates the Senate has ever known . A leading -Senator upon the opposite ...
... union , it stands unsur- passed among the great masterpieces of ancient or modern eloquence . Later , Mr. Lamar was a prominent participant in one of the fiercest debates the Senate has ever known . A leading -Senator upon the opposite ...
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