The Struggle Of'72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign: Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President and Vice-president; History and Platforms of the Great Political Parties; Facts about Public Men and Measures; Review of Grant's Administration; the Queer Record of Horace Greeley |
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Page 68
... Never was there so co- gent an illustration of the proverb , " great cry and little wool , " as was furnished by these investigations and the clamors which preceded them . ACTS OF CONGRESS . The laws enacted by the Forty - Second ...
... Never was there so co- gent an illustration of the proverb , " great cry and little wool , " as was furnished by these investigations and the clamors which preceded them . ACTS OF CONGRESS . The laws enacted by the Forty - Second ...
Page 73
... Never did a finer and more thoroughly representative body of men assemble for a similar purpose in this country . Coming fresh from the people , they were possessed by an intense and unanimous enthusiasm for the cause which they came to ...
... Never did a finer and more thoroughly representative body of men assemble for a similar purpose in this country . Coming fresh from the people , they were possessed by an intense and unanimous enthusiasm for the cause which they came to ...
Page 74
... Gerrit Smith , Nestor of the Anti - Slavery army , and a man whose milk of human kindness had never been soured by personal jealousy , like that of Charles Sumner . The business community , which seems 74 THE STRUGGLE OF '72 .
... Gerrit Smith , Nestor of the Anti - Slavery army , and a man whose milk of human kindness had never been soured by personal jealousy , like that of Charles Sumner . The business community , which seems 74 THE STRUGGLE OF '72 .
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... never before been heard in a national convention of one of the great politi- cal parties . The principal speakers of sable skin were the two above named and Messrs . Lynch , of Mississippi [ Secretary of State ] , and Harris , of ...
... never before been heard in a national convention of one of the great politi- cal parties . The principal speakers of sable skin were the two above named and Messrs . Lynch , of Mississippi [ Secretary of State ] , and Harris , of ...
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... never was heard before in any deliberative body . The whole audience rose and waved hats , handkerchiefs , etc. , and shouted promiscuously . Then there was sufficient lull for somebody to start " Cheers for Grant and victory , " and ...
... never was heard before in any deliberative body . The whole audience rose and waved hats , handkerchiefs , etc. , and shouted promiscuously . Then there was sufficient lull for somebody to start " Cheers for Grant and victory , " and ...
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