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Page 75
... Representatives of the United States , I rented two large chambers on the lower floor of what is known on Capitol Hill as " The Mills House , " and occupied them , with brief intervals , until March of 1871 - sometimes in- cluding the ...
... Representatives of the United States , I rented two large chambers on the lower floor of what is known on Capitol Hill as " The Mills House , " and occupied them , with brief intervals , until March of 1871 - sometimes in- cluding the ...
Page 76
... Representative from Indiana , the venerable John Law ; at another William Pitt Fessenden and Senator Nesmith , of Oregon . Speaker , now Vice - President Colfax , would be seen in the corner with his inevitable cigar , talking with Hon ...
... Representative from Indiana , the venerable John Law ; at another William Pitt Fessenden and Senator Nesmith , of Oregon . Speaker , now Vice - President Colfax , would be seen in the corner with his inevitable cigar , talking with Hon ...
Page 93
... Representatives in December of 1859. Jackson was afterward a Whig Representative in the Thirty - seventh Con- gress from Kentucky , and when elected was about forty . He was chosen as a pro - slavery man , with intense attachment to ...
... Representatives in December of 1859. Jackson was afterward a Whig Representative in the Thirty - seventh Con- gress from Kentucky , and when elected was about forty . He was chosen as a pro - slavery man , with intense attachment to ...
Page 112
... Representative in Con- gress from the same State from 1829 to 1843 , and United States Senator from 1844 to October of 1848 , when he died in New York . He was the largest man I ever saw . A chair for his especial use had to be made ...
... Representative in Con- gress from the same State from 1829 to 1843 , and United States Senator from 1844 to October of 1848 , when he died in New York . He was the largest man I ever saw . A chair for his especial use had to be made ...
Page 120
... Representative in Will- iam E. Lehman , in the first Pennsylvania district . It gave us a Republican in the ... Representatives . It confessedly paved the way to the freedom of Kansas and to the complete annihilation of the whole pro ...
... Representative in Will- iam E. Lehman , in the first Pennsylvania district . It gave us a Republican in the ... Representatives . It confessedly paved the way to the freedom of Kansas and to the complete annihilation of the whole pro ...
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