Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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John Wien Forney. CONRAD AND BARTON . hardly a county in the 29 United States of which this statement is not true , more or less . There is not a reader of these sketches who can not point out eminent men of his own acquaintance who ...
John Wien Forney. CONRAD AND BARTON . hardly a county in the 29 United States of which this statement is not true , more or less . There is not a reader of these sketches who can not point out eminent men of his own acquaintance who ...
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... United States , though not so long as that of 1855-56 , when General Banks was chosen , was equally exciting ; and when ex - Governor William Pennington , of New Jersey , was de- clared presiding officer of that body on the 1st , the ...
... United States , though not so long as that of 1855-56 , when General Banks was chosen , was equally exciting ; and when ex - Governor William Pennington , of New Jersey , was de- clared presiding officer of that body on the 1st , the ...
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... United States Senator in 1857 , and in the repeated voluntary ten- ders of distinguished official position by the present President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of his ...
... United States Senator in 1857 , and in the repeated voluntary ten- ders of distinguished official position by the present President of the United States , who has not permitted the recollection of my many years of cham- pionship of his ...
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... United States on the 4th of March 1865 , when Andrew Johnson was sworn in as Vice - President , has too often been painted to be set out into daylight again . Let it rest . I refer to it now only to relate one incident . After we ...
... United States on the 4th of March 1865 , when Andrew Johnson was sworn in as Vice - President , has too often been painted to be set out into daylight again . Let it rest . I refer to it now only to relate one incident . After we ...
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... United States by virtue of the act of annexation and admission into the Union . I will not say that I have demon- strated the question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say ...
... United States by virtue of the act of annexation and admission into the Union . I will not say that I have demon- strated the question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say ...
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