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John Wien Forney. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS . 19 fulfillment of many of his predictions and labors . But I began this sketch rather to relate an incident illustrative of his kind- ness to his friends than of his extraordinary prescience in the ...
John Wien Forney. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS . 19 fulfillment of many of his predictions and labors . But I began this sketch rather to relate an incident illustrative of his kind- ness to his friends than of his extraordinary prescience in the ...
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John Wien Forney. VII . THE 3d of February , 1860 , was one of the coldest days I ever knew in Washington , and the night was especially severe . The effort to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States , though ...
John Wien Forney. VII . THE 3d of February , 1860 , was one of the coldest days I ever knew in Washington , and the night was especially severe . The effort to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States , though ...
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John Wien Forney. " MAZEPPA " QUOTATION . 33 of satisfaction on the other . The event was naturally most distasteful to President Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a ...
John Wien Forney. " MAZEPPA " QUOTATION . 33 of satisfaction on the other . The event was naturally most distasteful to President Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a ...
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John Wien Forney. me out . stanza escaped my memory , and I could only refer to it . James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew , stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help " Remember it ...
John Wien Forney. me out . stanza escaped my memory , and I could only refer to it . James S. Jackson , of Kentucky , one of the bravest and best men I ever knew , stood at my side , and I asked him , sotto voce , to help " Remember it ...
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John Wien Forney. ment , and I will not surrender my relation to that enterprise whether I gain or lose the position with which my name has been once more associated . " Yours , very truly , J. W. FORNEY . " Hon . JOHN B. HASKIN . ' " A ...
John Wien Forney. ment , and I will not surrender my relation to that enterprise whether I gain or lose the position with which my name has been once more associated . " Yours , very truly , J. W. FORNEY . " Hon . JOHN B. HASKIN . ' " A ...
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