Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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Page 35
... elect me Clerk , I will accept the office and discharge the duties in the spirit in which it is conferred . Should the result be otherwise , my position will remain unchanged . I have tried the experiment of conducting an inde- pendent ...
... elect me Clerk , I will accept the office and discharge the duties in the spirit in which it is conferred . Should the result be otherwise , my position will remain unchanged . I have tried the experiment of conducting an inde- pendent ...
Page 36
... elected Clerk , myself and two friends took a carriage , and , expecting a speech , rode to your lodgings , and we were well rewarded even for the cold we endured among the outside audience . " It was a pleasant and a curious ...
... elected Clerk , myself and two friends took a carriage , and , expecting a speech , rode to your lodgings , and we were well rewarded even for the cold we endured among the outside audience . " It was a pleasant and a curious ...
Page 37
... her hands ; " and how wonderful it is that I should have just found what you had lost ! " Shortly after I was elected Clerk of the House , in 1860 , a lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to THADDEUS STEVENS. ...
... her hands ; " and how wonderful it is that I should have just found what you had lost ! " Shortly after I was elected Clerk of the House , in 1860 , a lady friend , since deceased , called my attention to THADDEUS STEVENS. ...
Page 40
... elected over Charles J. McDonald , the leader of the Calhounites . At the close of his first eight years in Congress , and at the end of his Speakership of the House , I sat with him in his official room at the Capitol , and heard his ...
... elected over Charles J. McDonald , the leader of the Calhounites . At the close of his first eight years in Congress , and at the end of his Speakership of the House , I sat with him in his official room at the Capitol , and heard his ...
Page 66
... elected a member of the Thirty - third Congress , in which body he only appeared a single day , having sickened with typhoid fever , from the effects of which he died . on the 9th of January , 1854 ) had accompanied his father as ...
... elected a member of the Thirty - third Congress , in which body he only appeared a single day , having sickened with typhoid fever , from the effects of which he died . on the 9th of January , 1854 ) had accompanied his father as ...
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