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... Administration . Instead of getting at least fifty Demo- crats in Congress from the three States of New Jersey , New York , and Pennsylvania , they got but two from the first , but five from the second , and but two from the third ...
... Administration . Instead of getting at least fifty Demo- crats in Congress from the three States of New Jersey , New York , and Pennsylvania , they got but two from the first , but five from the second , and but two from the third ...
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... Administration of their persecution of the men who had resisted Lecompton , and of the vindication of these men by the people in the elections ; and as I stood out on the bal- cony I thought of the famous lines of Lord Byron in ...
... Administration of their persecution of the men who had resisted Lecompton , and of the vindication of these men by the people in the elections ; and as I stood out on the bal- cony I thought of the famous lines of Lord Byron in ...
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... Administration of the General Govern- ment , and of hearty co - operation with all men who look to the overthrow of that Administration , its advocates and its indorsers . I have been in- formed , however , that , if my name should be ...
... Administration of the General Govern- ment , and of hearty co - operation with all men who look to the overthrow of that Administration , its advocates and its indorsers . I have been in- formed , however , that , if my name should be ...
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... been proof against such blandish- ments . Let this be said of him . He was never prominent in the small persecutions of the Democrats who refused to indorse the course of the Administration of which he was Vice JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
... been proof against such blandish- ments . Let this be said of him . He was never prominent in the small persecutions of the Democrats who refused to indorse the course of the Administration of which he was Vice JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. ...
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John Wien Forney. the course of the Administration of which he was Vice - Presi- dent . No doubt that lost him the confidence of the President and his immediate followers . He was made a Senator in Congress from Kentucky when the ...
John Wien Forney. the course of the Administration of which he was Vice - Presi- dent . No doubt that lost him the confidence of the President and his immediate followers . He was made a Senator in Congress from Kentucky when the ...
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