Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 117
... Clay - we met like brothers ; and it was no uncom- mon thing for him to make a stormy speech in the old Court- house , in Centre Square , Lancaster , or in one of the open spaces near the town , and make me a favorite subject for ...
... Clay - we met like brothers ; and it was no uncom- mon thing for him to make a stormy speech in the old Court- house , in Centre Square , Lancaster , or in one of the open spaces near the town , and make me a favorite subject for ...
Page 118
... Clay- ton , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward , Horace Greeley , Henry J. Raymond , George D. Pren- tice , Baillie Peyton , John Bell , George Ashmun , George Evans , and men of that school , not one of ...
... Clay- ton , Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward , Horace Greeley , Henry J. Raymond , George D. Pren- tice , Baillie Peyton , John Bell , George Ashmun , George Evans , and men of that school , not one of ...
Page 122
... CLAY , CAL- HOUN , AND HAYNE . -THE GREAT DEBATE IN 1830 ON NUL- LIFICATION , AND THE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES BANK . THREE figures - Andrew Jackson , Daniel Webster , and John C. Calhoun - dominated the historic period when ...
... CLAY , CAL- HOUN , AND HAYNE . -THE GREAT DEBATE IN 1830 ON NUL- LIFICATION , AND THE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES BANK . THREE figures - Andrew Jackson , Daniel Webster , and John C. Calhoun - dominated the historic period when ...
Page 123
... Clay , his Secretary of State , had left Wash- ington city with him after the inauguration of Jackson , in the spring of 1829 ; so that neither was in Congress when the great debate began on Foote's resolution , offered December 29 ...
... Clay , his Secretary of State , had left Wash- ington city with him after the inauguration of Jackson , in the spring of 1829 ; so that neither was in Congress when the great debate began on Foote's resolution , offered December 29 ...
Page 129
... Clay was just coming into the Senate after his defeat for the Presi- dency the year before . Webster was still there . But they re- mained in the background , and allowed the war to rage in the Democratic ranks . Clay was maturing his ...
... Clay was just coming into the Senate after his defeat for the Presi- dency the year before . Webster was still there . But they re- mained in the background , and allowed the war to rage in the Democratic ranks . Clay was maturing his ...
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