Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York schooling had made him especially abhorrent of obedience to such tyrants , and so he grappled with them promptly . In a little more than six ...
... leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York schooling had made him especially abhorrent of obedience to such tyrants , and so he grappled with them promptly . In a little more than six ...
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... leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemp ...
... leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed of the redemp ...
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... 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 eloquent declaration that he would make ...
... 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 eloquent declaration that he would make ...
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... leader of the Democracy in that exciting month , and though he gave no sign of his intention to join the rebel army , nobody was surprised when he was reported at Richmond , Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ever took ...
... leader of the Democracy in that exciting month , and though he gave no sign of his intention to join the rebel army , nobody was surprised when he was reported at Richmond , Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ever took ...
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... leader . It was a meeting of men of all parties , and he said : " If the spirit which animates the assembly before me to - night shall become general and extend over the whole country , then indeed may we say that the wounds of the late ...
... leader . It was a meeting of men of all parties , and he said : " If the spirit which animates the assembly before me to - night shall become general and extend over the whole country , then indeed may we say that the wounds of the late ...
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