Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months ... Senator , a resolution , in accordance with a sometime custom , was intro- duced into the Kentucky House of ...
... Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months ... Senator , a resolution , in accordance with a sometime custom , was intro- duced into the Kentucky House of ...
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... Senator Doug- las had been advertised to speak , and a large audience was in attendance . It was his first appearance there since the pas- sage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill . The writer , then a student at the Wesleyan University ...
... Senator Doug- las had been advertised to speak , and a large audience was in attendance . It was his first appearance there since the pas- sage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill . The writer , then a student at the Wesleyan University ...
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... Senators , and the accused stood acquitted at the bar of the Senate . When the second session of this Congress convened , in December , 1876 , the excitement throughout the country was intense over the pending Presidential contest ...
... Senators , and the accused stood acquitted at the bar of the Senate . When the second session of this Congress convened , in December , 1876 , the excitement throughout the country was intense over the pending Presidential contest ...
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... Senator Maxey , and Mr. Blaine . The last named , " upon the plain highway of talk , " was unrivalled . While the Board was in session , Mr. Blaine and I spent some hours with the Hon . Hamilton Fish , late Secretary of State , at his ...
... Senator Maxey , and Mr. Blaine . The last named , " upon the plain highway of talk , " was unrivalled . While the Board was in session , Mr. Blaine and I spent some hours with the Hon . Hamilton Fish , late Secretary of State , at his ...
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... Senator - elect from Ohio , and the President- elect of the United States . For once , it indeed seemed that " fortune had come with both hands full . " In the words of the Persian poet , " he had obtained an ear of corn from every ...
... Senator - elect from Ohio , and the President- elect of the United States . For once , it indeed seemed that " fortune had come with both hands full . " In the words of the Persian poet , " he had obtained an ear of corn from every ...
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