Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... Government . The population of the country had almost doubled ; the ratio of representation in the Lower House of Congress largely augmented ; the entire electoral vote increased from 369 to 444. Eight new States had been admitted to ...
... Government . The population of the country had almost doubled ; the ratio of representation in the Lower House of Congress largely augmented ; the entire electoral vote increased from 369 to 444. Eight new States had been admitted to ...
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... Government , no statesman has been so completely idolized by his friends and party as was Henry Clay . Words are meaningless when the attempt is made to express the idolatry of the Whigs of his own State for their great chief- tain ...
... Government , no statesman has been so completely idolized by his friends and party as was Henry Clay . Words are meaningless when the attempt is made to express the idolatry of the Whigs of his own State for their great chief- tain ...
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... Government . In the old hall near by now the Valhalla of the nation - he had sat with John Quincy Adams and contemporaries whose names at once recall the Revolutionary period . After serving as Vice - President of the Confederacy ...
... Government . In the old hall near by now the Valhalla of the nation - he had sat with John Quincy Adams and contemporaries whose names at once recall the Revolutionary period . After serving as Vice - President of the Confederacy ...
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... Government building in the prin- cipal city of his district . The interposition of the stereo- typed " I object " had , however , in each instance , proved fatal . During a night session , near the close of the Congress , requests for ...
... Government building in the prin- cipal city of his district . The interposition of the stereo- typed " I object " had , however , in each instance , proved fatal . During a night session , near the close of the Congress , requests for ...
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... . Quay Francis Warre mrr Eltlarthall Saling MUISI FHatter Henry C. Hausberé CH . Clark Dnes Jessie Vitter Esquir SENATE TESTIMONIAL TO MR . STEVENSON AS PRESIDENT OF SENATE the great officer to whom the founders of the government.
... . Quay Francis Warre mrr Eltlarthall Saling MUISI FHatter Henry C. Hausberé CH . Clark Dnes Jessie Vitter Esquir SENATE TESTIMONIAL TO MR . STEVENSON AS PRESIDENT OF SENATE the great officer to whom the founders of the government.
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