Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... some of the orators of other days— the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! The South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhet- ORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . XII. ...
... some of the orators of other days— the men of the generation succeeding Andrew Jackson ! The South always predominated in fascinating and plausible rhet- ORATORS OF THE SOUTH . 57 oric . Winter Davis 56 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN . XII. ...
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... Jackson . It was a custom of Mr. Buchanan's enemies to say that he never had the entire confidence of Old Hickory ... Jackson's immediate friends , 62 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... Jackson . It was a custom of Mr. Buchanan's enemies to say that he never had the entire confidence of Old Hickory ... Jackson's immediate friends , 62 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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John Wien Forney. PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , or Kitchen Cabinet ; yet not less true is it that , when James K. Polk was chosen President in 1844 , the venerable Jackson , then at the Hermitage ...
John Wien Forney. PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , or Kitchen Cabinet ; yet not less true is it that , when James K. Polk was chosen President in 1844 , the venerable Jackson , then at the Hermitage ...
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... Jackson , probably for the hundredth time . Shortly after Mr. Buchanan's return from Russia in 1834 , to which he had been sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of the United States ...
... Jackson , probably for the hundredth time . Shortly after Mr. Buchanan's return from Russia in 1834 , to which he had been sent by President Jackson in 1832 , and im- mediately following his election to the Senate of the United States ...
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John Wien Forney. ANDREW JACKSON . 65 reception - room down stairs , he ascended to the President's pri- vate quarters and found General Jackson unshaved , unkempt , in his dressing - gown , with his slippered feet on the fender be- fore ...
John Wien Forney. ANDREW JACKSON . 65 reception - room down stairs , he ascended to the President's pri- vate quarters and found General Jackson unshaved , unkempt , in his dressing - gown , with his slippered feet on the fender be- fore ...
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