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Page 180
... interesting and exciting destiny . With them , unlike their more fortunate white brethren , the bitterest struggle begins when they receive their sheepskins . They go forth to war against a tempest of bigotry CLAY AND BUCHANAN . 181 and ...
... interesting and exciting destiny . With them , unlike their more fortunate white brethren , the bitterest struggle begins when they receive their sheepskins . They go forth to war against a tempest of bigotry CLAY AND BUCHANAN . 181 and ...
Page 193
... interesting men . Amid their abounding hospitality there was still a presentiment upon me , and so when I returned to Wash- ington , and found Sydney Webster , private secretary of Presi- dent Pierce , waiting for me at the station , I ...
... interesting men . Amid their abounding hospitality there was still a presentiment upon me , and so when I returned to Wash- ington , and found Sydney Webster , private secretary of Presi- dent Pierce , waiting for me at the station , I ...
Page 194
... interesting by the infusion of the plantation patois into her liquid language . Long and constant communication between the master and the slave cre- ated and crystallized affinities and eccentricities that will re- quire generations to ...
... interesting by the infusion of the plantation patois into her liquid language . Long and constant communication between the master and the slave cre- ated and crystallized affinities and eccentricities that will re- quire generations to ...
Page 200
... interesting fact from good authority . John Sergeant and Horace Binney moved together in poli- tics and in their profession . Let me employ Mr. Binney's lan- guage in 1852 once more : " I honored and respected him to the end of his life ...
... interesting fact from good authority . John Sergeant and Horace Binney moved together in poli- tics and in their profession . Let me employ Mr. Binney's lan- guage in 1852 once more : " I honored and respected him to the end of his life ...
Page 201
... interesting men were associates at the bar , harmonizing in politics , and generally supporting the same measures and the same candidates . Their joint ex- perience , their blended patriotism , their high sense of honor , their fidelity ...
... interesting men were associates at the bar , harmonizing in politics , and generally supporting the same measures and the same candidates . Their joint ex- perience , their blended patriotism , their high sense of honor , their fidelity ...
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