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... followed his intimate friends Breckinridge , Hawkins , and Preston into the Confederate service , and it was a hard struggle to differ with them , but he did it bravely , pre- serving their love in life , and calling out their manly ...
... followed his intimate friends Breckinridge , Hawkins , and Preston into the Confederate service , and it was a hard struggle to differ with them , but he did it bravely , pre- serving their love in life , and calling out their manly ...
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... followed in a little more than a month by his murder . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1861 , I was present as ... followed the one , peace and assassination the other . The scene in the Senate of the United States on the 4th of ...
... followed in a little more than a month by his murder . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1861 , I was present as ... followed the one , peace and assassination the other . The scene in the Senate of the United States on the 4th of ...
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... , and such as would have been ours now , to - day , if it had not been for the treason for which the Sen- ator too often seeks to apologize . " JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the 46 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... , and such as would have been ours now , to - day , if it had not been for the treason for which the Sen- ator too often seeks to apologize . " JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the 46 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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John Wien Forney. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the debate . Breckinridge thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory , " What would have been done with a Roman Senator guilty of such treason ? " by ...
John Wien Forney. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE . 47 An amusing episode followed the debate . Breckinridge thought it was Sumner who answered Baker's interrogatory , " What would have been done with a Roman Senator guilty of such treason ? " by ...
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... followed by quite a pro- cession of men of the same school when hostilities commenced . There is now hardly a considerable town in the United States in which some 66 Old - line Whig " is not among the Democratic leaders . Most notable ...
... followed by quite a pro- cession of men of the same school when hostilities commenced . There is now hardly a considerable town in the United States in which some 66 Old - line Whig " is not among the Democratic leaders . Most notable ...
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