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... favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate . But , if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background , I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined ...
... favor upon me for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate . But , if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background , I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined ...
Page 6
... 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 the public , and therefore I ...
... 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 the public , and therefore I ...
Page 57
... favor- ing his nomination . If he is , ask him to discard feeling , and try if he can possibly , as a matter of judgment , count the votes necessary to elect him . In my judgment we can elect nobody but General Taylor ; and we cannot ...
... favor- ing his nomination . If he is , ask him to discard feeling , and try if he can possibly , as a matter of judgment , count the votes necessary to elect him . In my judgment we can elect nobody but General Taylor ; and we cannot ...
Page 86
... favor of gradual emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King ...
... favor of gradual emancipation in Ken- tucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly . On the question of liberty as a prin- ciple , we are not what we have been . When we were the political slaves of King ...
Page 90
... favor of the measure . In a day or two Douglas's orders came on to have resolutions passed approving the bill ; and they were passed by large majorities !!! The truth of this is vouched for by a bolting Democratic member . The masses ...
... favor of the measure . In a day or two Douglas's orders came on to have resolutions passed approving the bill ; and they were passed by large majorities !!! The truth of this is vouched for by a bolting Democratic member . The masses ...
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