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... Senate, they-assist; those who have a mistaken vocation to oratory, they mercifully extinguish. Even in that day, and that rude country, where learning was a marvelous and fearful exception, the debating school flourished, in part as a ...
... Senate, they-assist; those who have a mistaken vocation to oratory, they mercifully extinguish. Even in that day, and that rude country, where learning was a marvelous and fearful exception, the debating school flourished, in part as a ...
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... Senate. Otherwise than in the election of Senators, State Legislatures were not then occupied with national affairs, and it is difficult to find anything in Mr. Lincoln's legislative history which is of great national interest. There ...
... Senate. Otherwise than in the election of Senators, State Legislatures were not then occupied with national affairs, and it is difficult to find anything in Mr. Lincoln's legislative history which is of great national interest. There ...
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... Senate sat Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Webster, Corwin. In the House were Palfrey, Winthrop, Wilmot, Giddings, Adams. The new member from Illinois, who had distinguished himself in 1844 as the friend of Clay and the enemy of Texan annexation ...
... Senate sat Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Webster, Corwin. In the House were Palfrey, Winthrop, Wilmot, Giddings, Adams. The new member from Illinois, who had distinguished himself in 1844 as the friend of Clay and the enemy of Texan annexation ...
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... Senator took place the following winter, and General Shields was superseded. This gentleman, who, listening to the seductive persuasions of his voiceful colleague, was said to have voted for the repeal of the Compromise against his own ...
... Senator took place the following winter, and General Shields was superseded. This gentleman, who, listening to the seductive persuasions of his voiceful colleague, was said to have voted for the repeal of the Compromise against his own ...
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... Senator. This, however, was not the first sacrifice which he made to conciliation and union. The anti-Nebraska party of the same year offered him the nomination for Governor; but in the existing state of organizations, he declined for ...
... Senator. This, however, was not the first sacrifice which he made to conciliation and union. The anti-Nebraska party of the same year offered him the nomination for Governor; but in the existing state of organizations, he declined for ...
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OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 20 1848 | |
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