Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... received the sanction in national convention of both of the great parties that two years later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then ...
... received the sanction in national convention of both of the great parties that two years later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then ...
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... received a majority of all of the electoral votes cast . The method of settlement was clearly pointed out by the Constitution . As already indicated , the case was wholly different in the Hayes - Tilden contro- versy . The question then ...
... received a majority of all of the electoral votes cast . The method of settlement was clearly pointed out by the Constitution . As already indicated , the case was wholly different in the Hayes - Tilden contro- versy . The question then ...
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... received a majority of more than two hundred thousand of the popular vote was not disputed . That he had secured a majority of the Presidential electors in the several States , and was lawfully entitled to be inducted into the great ...
... received a majority of more than two hundred thousand of the popular vote was not disputed . That he had secured a majority of the Presidential electors in the several States , and was lawfully entitled to be inducted into the great ...
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... received a majority of the legal votes of those States . The avowed object of the bill was to secure the ends of justice ; to see that the will of the people was executed ; that the Republic suffered no harm ; to see that the title to ...
... received a majority of the legal votes of those States . The avowed object of the bill was to secure the ends of justice ; to see that the will of the people was executed ; that the Republic suffered no harm ; to see that the title to ...
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... received a telegram calling him home just as the roll - call was ordered upon an important bill . Earnestly desiring to vote - which owing to the early departure of his train was impossible if he waited until his name was regularly ...
... received a telegram calling him home just as the roll - call was ordered upon an important bill . Earnestly desiring to vote - which owing to the early departure of his train was impossible if he waited until his name was regularly ...
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