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... Jackson to power , he said : " Recall to your recollection the 4th of March , 1829 , when the lank , lean , famished forms from fen and forests and the four quarters of the Union gathered together in the halls of patronage , or ...
... Jackson to power , he said : " Recall to your recollection the 4th of March , 1829 , when the lank , lean , famished forms from fen and forests and the four quarters of the Union gathered together in the halls of patronage , or ...
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... Jackson . One Kremer had printed in a Washington paper a scandalous charge known as the " corrupt bargain , " in which Clay was alleged to have consented to throw his influ- ence for John Quincy Adams , candidate for President , for a ...
... Jackson . One Kremer had printed in a Washington paper a scandalous charge known as the " corrupt bargain , " in which Clay was alleged to have consented to throw his influ- ence for John Quincy Adams , candidate for President , for a ...
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... Jackson and with his successor to the Presidency , Martin Van Buren . With charac- teristic self - possession , Clay proposed a radical change in the payment of members of Congress . Their compensation was $ 6 a day for each day's ...
... Jackson and with his successor to the Presidency , Martin Van Buren . With charac- teristic self - possession , Clay proposed a radical change in the payment of members of Congress . Their compensation was $ 6 a day for each day's ...
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... Jackson had nine- ty - nine electoral votes , Adams eighty - four , Craw- ford forty - one , and Clay thirty - seven ... Jackson's friends . This , how- ever , was not revealed to the friends of the 32 STATESMEN.
... Jackson had nine- ty - nine electoral votes , Adams eighty - four , Craw- ford forty - one , and Clay thirty - seven ... Jackson's friends . This , how- ever , was not revealed to the friends of the 32 STATESMEN.
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... Jackson's friends charged upon Clay that he was a party to a corrupt bargain . This was the foundation of the celebrated " Bargain and Corruption " scandal which agitated the country for months and years thereafter . The assertion of ...
... Jackson's friends charged upon Clay that he was a party to a corrupt bargain . This was the foundation of the celebrated " Bargain and Corruption " scandal which agitated the country for months and years thereafter . The assertion of ...
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