Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... Washington I was assailed in the northern part of the State by an old line aboli- tionist , in the central part of the State by a Whig , and in southern Illinois by an anti - Nebraska Democrat . I cannot hold the Whig responsible for ...
... Washington I was assailed in the northern part of the State by an old line aboli- tionist , in the central part of the State by a Whig , and in southern Illinois by an anti - Nebraska Democrat . I cannot hold the Whig responsible for ...
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... Washington College classmates , he brusquely inquired , " What are John Y. Calhoun's politics ? " I answered , " He is a Democrat . " Blaine instantly replied , " Well , how strangely things do come around in this world ! When we were ...
... Washington College classmates , he brusquely inquired , " What are John Y. Calhoun's politics ? " I answered , " He is a Democrat . " Blaine instantly replied , " Well , how strangely things do come around in this world ! When we were ...
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... Washington , to be present at the opening of Congress , my attention was directed to a man of venerable appearance , who entered the sleeping - car at a station not many miles out from Cincinnati . He was dressed in " Kentucky jeans ...
... Washington , to be present at the opening of Congress , my attention was directed to a man of venerable appearance , who entered the sleeping - car at a station not many miles out from Cincinnati . He was dressed in " Kentucky jeans ...
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... Washington , D. G , February 27 , 1897 . The drocharge of the important duties incident to your great office as President of the United Plates Denaté has , for the last four years , brought us into an association with close and constant ...
... Washington , D. G , February 27 , 1897 . The drocharge of the important duties incident to your great office as President of the United Plates Denaté has , for the last four years , brought us into an association with close and constant ...
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... Washington and of Lincoln - in the near and in the remote future , will prove the guardians and defenders of the Constitution , the guardians and defenders of the rights of all the people ? " Luminous will be the pages of history that ...
... Washington and of Lincoln - in the near and in the remote future , will prove the guardians and defenders of the Constitution , the guardians and defenders of the rights of all the people ? " Luminous will be the pages of history that ...
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