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... Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid , his retorts so quick , his humor so eccentric , that it ...
... Congress , and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in the days when short- hand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so rapid , his retorts so quick , his humor so eccentric , that it ...
Page 32
... 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 . John W. Geary and Robert J. Walker had followed the example of An ...
... 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 . John W. Geary and Robert J. Walker had followed the example of An ...
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... Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term raised a regiment of Kentucky volunteers , and was killed in the battle of Perryville in 1862. Mr. Lincoln had just made him a briga- dier - general ...
... Congress from his State as a Union man in 1861 , and before the expiration of his term raised a regiment of Kentucky volunteers , and was killed in the battle of Perryville in 1862. Mr. Lincoln had just made him a briga- dier - general ...
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... Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described . There was also a sacred confidence around many of those scenes which could not be violated ...
... Congress and the country , and would play off many an innocent joke upon them . I will not attempt to repeat what has been so often described . There was also a sacred confidence around many of those scenes which could not be violated ...
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... Congress , and at the end of his Speakership of the House , I sat with him in his official room at the Capitol , and heard his eloquent declaration that he would make war upon these men , cost him what it might . The contest was ex ...
... Congress , and at the end of his Speakership of the House , I sat with him in his official room at the Capitol , and heard his eloquent declaration that he would make war upon these men , cost him what it might . The contest was ex ...
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