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... election ; but that , through favor to us , you should forbear to divulge them . No one has needed favors more than I , and , generally , few have been less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to ...
... election ; but that , through favor to us , you should forbear to divulge them . No one has needed favors more than I , and , generally , few have been less unwilling to accept them ; but in this case favor to me would be injustice to ...
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... elections in the States , and from their results con- fidently predicts that every State in the Union will vote for Mr. Van Buren at the next presidential election . Address that argument to cowards and to knaves ; with the free and the ...
... elections in the States , and from their results con- fidently predicts that every State in the Union will vote for Mr. Van Buren at the next presidential election . Address that argument to cowards and to knaves ; with the free and the ...
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... election is just no chance at all . He might get New York , and that would have elected in 1844 , but it will not now , be- cause he must now , at the least , lose Tennessee , which he had then , and in addition the fifteen new votes of ...
... election is just no chance at all . He might get New York , and that would have elected in 1844 , but it will not now , be- cause he must now , at the least , lose Tennessee , which he had then , and in addition the fifteen new votes of ...
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... election of " Old Zach , " but will be an interesting pastime , and improving to the intel- lectual faculties of all engaged . Don't fail to do this . [ From a letter to William H. Herndon . Washington 60 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... election of " Old Zach , " but will be an interesting pastime , and improving to the intel- lectual faculties of all engaged . Don't fail to do this . [ From a letter to William H. Herndon . Washington 60 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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... elections ; still , if Kansas fairly votes her- self a slave State she must be admitted , or the Union must be dissolved . But how if she votes herself a slave State unfairly , that is , by the very means for which you say you would ...
... elections ; still , if Kansas fairly votes her- self a slave State she must be admitted , or the Union must be dissolved . But how if she votes herself a slave State unfairly , that is , by the very means for which you say you would ...
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