Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . PERIOD TH - - - LINCOLN'S THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the ...
... PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . PERIOD TH - - - LINCOLN'S THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to Congress in 1874 , to my retirement from the ...
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... parties that two years later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then believed that the question that had been so fraught with peril to ...
... parties that two years later presented candidates for the Presidency . It is no doubt true that a majority of the people , in both sec- tions of the country , then believed that the question that had been so fraught with peril to ...
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... party leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger space than did Henry Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr. Lincoln ; the ...
... party leaders than that of which we write . Of eminent statesmen , whose names were still invoked , none had filled larger space than did Henry Clay and Andrew Jack- son . The former was the early political idol of Mr. Lincoln ; the ...
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... party does Mr. Lincoln repre- sent ? " The answer of Mr. Fell was , " The Whig party , of course . " Declining the proposition with much feeling Mr. Douglas said , " When I came home from Washington I was assailed in the northern part ...
... party does Mr. Lincoln repre- sent ? " The answer of Mr. Fell was , " The Whig party , of course . " Declining the proposition with much feeling Mr. Douglas said , " When I came home from Washington I was assailed in the northern part ...
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... party leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson Davis from the benefit of the General Amnesty Bill , Mr. Blaine , looking ...
... party leader . That he possessed a touch of humor will appear from the following . While the discussion was at its height upon his amendment excluding Jefferson Davis from the benefit of the General Amnesty Bill , Mr. Blaine , looking ...
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