Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... measure regained its former position in the world of trade , as well as in that pertaining to the affairs of the Government . The population of the country had almost doubled ; the ratio of representation in the Lower House of Congress ...
... measure regained its former position in the world of trade , as well as in that pertaining to the affairs of the Government . The population of the country had almost doubled ; the ratio of representation in the Lower House of Congress ...
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... measures of 1850. " These measures , although bitterly denounced in the South as well as in the North , received the sanction in national convention of both of the great parties that two years later presented candidates for the ...
... measures of 1850. " These measures , although bitterly denounced in the South as well as in the North , received the sanction in national convention of both of the great parties that two years later presented candidates for the ...
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... measure , under the severe condi- tions to be briefly mentioned . The old - time custom of " riding the circuit " is to the present generation of lawyers only a tradition . The few who remember central Illinois as it was sixty years ago ...
... measure , under the severe condi- tions to be briefly mentioned . The old - time custom of " riding the circuit " is to the present generation of lawyers only a tradition . The few who remember central Illinois as it was sixty years ago ...
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... measure unknown ; and altogether much was to be , and was , " pardoned to the spirit of liberty . " There were no great corporations to be chosen defendants , but much of the time of the courts was taken up by suits in ejectment ...
... measure unknown ; and altogether much was to be , and was , " pardoned to the spirit of liberty . " There were no great corporations to be chosen defendants , but much of the time of the courts was taken up by suits in ejectment ...
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... measure removed , and the South was now , for the first time since the war , represented in Con- gress by its old - time statesmen . Of this number may be mentioned Mr. Stephens of Georgia , Mr. Lamar of Mississippi , and Mr. Reagan of ...
... measure removed , and the South was now , for the first time since the war , represented in Con- gress by its old - time statesmen . Of this number may be mentioned Mr. Stephens of Georgia , Mr. Lamar of Mississippi , and Mr. Reagan of ...
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