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... associates here , and with intense Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway ...
... associates here , and with intense Union consituencies at home , their apprehension , as they are called to vote upon this amendment , is indeed deplor- able . It reminds me of a Hibernian procession I once saw moving down Broadway ...
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... associates during his long service in the House . His principle in action seemed ever to be , " there is nothing so kingly as kindness . " Messrs . Hale and Frye of Maine , Aldrich of Rhode Island , Money of Mississippi , Taylor of ...
... associates during his long service in the House . His principle in action seemed ever to be , " there is nothing so kingly as kindness . " Messrs . Hale and Frye of Maine , Aldrich of Rhode Island , Money of Mississippi , Taylor of ...
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... associate it would have been difficult to find . He was optimistic to the last degree . To him every cloud had a silver lining , -the lining generally concealing the cloud . It was said of him by one of his colleagues that when the ...
... associate it would have been difficult to find . He was optimistic to the last degree . To him every cloud had a silver lining , -the lining generally concealing the cloud . It was said of him by one of his colleagues that when the ...
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With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Adlai Ewing Stevenson. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD of the great hall when he was the honored associate.
With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Adlai Ewing Stevenson. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD of the great hall when he was the honored associate.
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... associate of men whose public service reached back to the formation of the 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 ...
... associate of men whose public service reached back to the formation of the 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 ...
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