The Life of William A. Buckingham: The War Governor of Connecticut, with a Review of His Public Acts, and Especially the Distinguished Services He Rendered His Country During the War of the Rebellion; with which is Incorporated, a Condensed Account of the More Important Campaigns of the War, and Information from Private Sources and Family and Official Documents |
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... UNITED STATES SENATOR , 452 Governor Buckingham's Term in the Senate - His Share in Maintaining What Had Been Gained by the War - Some of His Work - His Death Shortly Before the Ex- piration of His Term of Office . CHAPTER XXX ...
... UNITED STATES SENATOR , 452 Governor Buckingham's Term in the Senate - His Share in Maintaining What Had Been Gained by the War - Some of His Work - His Death Shortly Before the Ex- piration of His Term of Office . CHAPTER XXX ...
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... United States Supreme Court . While the Governor resembled his father most in personal appearance , and possessed his father's rare business qualities , he inherited his mother's temperament , her alertness of mind , her capacity for in ...
... United States Supreme Court . While the Governor resembled his father most in personal appearance , and possessed his father's rare business qualities , he inherited his mother's temperament , her alertness of mind , her capacity for in ...
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... united by kinship , acquaintance and business . They had struggled together through the War of Independ- ence , and no two of our original colonies , who now found themselves most at variance on the subject of slavery , were more united ...
... united by kinship , acquaintance and business . They had struggled together through the War of Independ- ence , and no two of our original colonies , who now found themselves most at variance on the subject of slavery , were more united ...
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... United States should give a guaranty that its character in this respect should not be changed . They urged that to see slavery recognized upon soil once owned by Mexico would be as abhorrent to that gov- ernment as it would be to the United ...
... United States should give a guaranty that its character in this respect should not be changed . They urged that to see slavery recognized upon soil once owned by Mexico would be as abhorrent to that gov- ernment as it would be to the United ...
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... united the North in opposition to slavery as nothing else could have done . It organized the Republican party , and drew all the elements of opposition to the extension of slavery into that party . " This effort to make Kansas a slave ...
... united the North in opposition to slavery as nothing else could have done . It organized the Republican party , and drew all the elements of opposition to the extension of slavery into that party . " This effort to make Kansas a slave ...
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