Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... judge of the district . As is well known , he was the intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln , and the latter was often his guest during attendance upon the courts at Bloomington . At that early day , the term of court in few of the counties ...
... judge of the district . As is well known , he was the intimate friend of Mr. Lincoln , and the latter was often his guest during attendance upon the courts at Bloomington . At that early day , the term of court in few of the counties ...
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... Judge Douglas and himself was most cordial , and their conversa- tion , principally of incidents of their early lives , of the most agreeable and familiar character . Judge Lawrence Weldon , just then at the beginning of an honorable ...
... Judge Douglas and himself was most cordial , and their conversa- tion , principally of incidents of their early lives , of the most agreeable and familiar character . Judge Lawrence Weldon , just then at the beginning of an honorable ...
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... Judge Black of Pennsylvania and the Hon . Matthew H. Carpenter of Wisconsin . Mr. Knott of Kentucky , Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts , and Mr. Lord of New York , con- ducted the prosecution in the main as managers on the part of the House of ...
... Judge Black of Pennsylvania and the Hon . Matthew H. Carpenter of Wisconsin . Mr. Knott of Kentucky , Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts , and Mr. Lord of New York , con- ducted the prosecution in the main as managers on the part of the House of ...
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... judges of the highest court upon earth , was to be con- stituted , whose sole duty was to report a fact known to every man in the land , that the returning - board of Louisiana had given the votes of that State to the Hayes electors ...
... judges of the highest court upon earth , was to be con- stituted , whose sole duty was to report a fact known to every man in the land , that the returning - board of Louisiana had given the votes of that State to the Hayes electors ...
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... Judge Holman of Indiana . - The House probably contained no member of rarer attain- ments in scholarship than Julius H. Seelye of Massachusetts . He stood in the front ranks of the great educators of his day , and was President of ...
... Judge Holman of Indiana . - The House probably contained no member of rarer attain- ments in scholarship than Julius H. Seelye of Massachusetts . He stood in the front ranks of the great educators of his day , and was President of ...
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