Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 67
... House by Hon . Gideon J. Ball , of Erie . It startled the coun- try by appropriating five hundred thousand dollars , and pro- viding for a complete organization of our volunteer forces for defence . The contest was a bitter one ...
... House by Hon . Gideon J. Ball , of Erie . It startled the coun- try by appropriating five hundred thousand dollars , and pro- viding for a complete organization of our volunteer forces for defence . The contest was a bitter one ...
Page 72
... house , where you played the swindler ; not from the Custom - house , where you played the robber ; but it flies from her thousand graveyards , where the titled niggards of your Cabinet have won the battle your soldiers could not ...
... house , where you played the swindler ; not from the Custom - house , where you played the robber ; but it flies from her thousand graveyards , where the titled niggards of your Cabinet have won the battle your soldiers could not ...
Page 74
... Irish Parliament was at midnight . He had come from a sick - bed . They gave him leave to sit while he addressed the House . For a moment - for a moment his agony forsook him . Men beheld before their eyes 74 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... Irish Parliament was at midnight . He had come from a sick - bed . They gave him leave to sit while he addressed the House . For a moment - for a moment his agony forsook him . Men beheld before their eyes 74 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
Page 76
... house . ' ” It was not till the war broke out that I met Thomas Francis Meagher at my residence in Philadelphia and my rooms in Washington . Needless to say that he was a charming com- panion , with just enough of the Irish brogue to 76 ...
... house . ' ” It was not till the war broke out that I met Thomas Francis Meagher at my residence in Philadelphia and my rooms in Washington . Needless to say that he was a charming com- panion , with just enough of the Irish brogue to 76 ...
Page 83
... House . The Adams family have given the nation two Presi- dents . General Butler himself a member of the popular branch , while his son - in - law , General Ames , was a Senator from Mis- sissippi ; and young Hale , the Representative ...
... House . The Adams family have given the nation two Presi- dents . General Butler himself a member of the popular branch , while his son - in - law , General Ames , was a Senator from Mis- sissippi ; and young Hale , the Representative ...
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