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Page 109
... offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that posi- tion remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept . Mentioning his 1850 re- fusal and his present disinclination , the old ...
... offer Bates the State Department then and there . Should that posi- tion remain unavailable , he would offer Bates the Attorney Generalship and urge him to accept . Mentioning his 1850 re- fusal and his present disinclination , the old ...
Page 141
... offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to guess it . Bates and Seward were discussed as being already in the cabinet ...
... offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to guess it . Bates and Seward were discussed as being already in the cabinet ...
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... offer , in a long letter purporting to be the true story of “ the Great Cameron Cabal . " " A bolder scheme , " he thought , " was never conceived nor more adroitly executed .... It furnishes a counter- part to the best strokes of ...
... offer , in a long letter purporting to be the true story of “ the Great Cameron Cabal . " " A bolder scheme , " he thought , " was never conceived nor more adroitly executed .... It furnishes a counter- part to the best strokes of ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
Copyright | |
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