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... President was his foe , and that the solemn pledge of justice to Kansas was not to be main- tained . The national patronage on the Pacific slope was con- centrated in the hands of his colleague , and the young Senator began his career ...
... President was his foe , and that the solemn pledge of justice to Kansas was not to be main- tained . The national patronage on the Pacific slope was con- centrated in the hands of his colleague , and the young Senator began his career ...
Page 25
... President who delighted to speak of his rise from the tailor's bench . He did not think a man any worse for having worked for his living at a trade , nor did he believe him any better . And this theory sprang from the belief that the ...
... President who delighted to speak of his rise from the tailor's bench . He did not think a man any worse for having worked for his living at a trade , nor did he believe him any better . And this theory sprang from the belief that the ...
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... president . He lives in some of the finest lyrics of the language , and in his great play of " Jack Cade , " which holds the stage with tenacious popularity . Had he figured in Con- gress he would be classed among the Wirts , the ...
... president . He lives in some of the finest lyrics of the language , and in his great play of " Jack Cade , " which holds the stage with tenacious popularity . Had he figured in Con- gress he would be classed among the Wirts , the ...
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... President Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a large number of my personal friends met at Mr. John F. Coyle's , whose guest I was , on Missouri Avenue , to celebrate ...
... President Buchanan , crowning as it did a long and gloomy procession of disasters . On the evening of that Friday a large number of my personal friends met at Mr. John F. Coyle's , whose guest I was , on Missouri Avenue , to celebrate ...
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... President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of his aspirations to outweigh the fact that I could not conscien- tiously follow him in his abandonment and violation of the ...
... President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of his aspirations to outweigh the fact that I could not conscien- tiously follow him in his abandonment and violation of the ...
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