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... political truth as our own Repub- lic , and none like it has ever fulfilled the ultimate problem of all government , that , namely , of making the utmost freedom of the citizen and the utmost power of the State the co - existing and the ...
... political truth as our own Repub- lic , and none like it has ever fulfilled the ultimate problem of all government , that , namely , of making the utmost freedom of the citizen and the utmost power of the State the co - existing and the ...
Page 60
... political trust ever committed to the hands of any other people - are we alone to be incapable of any and every dedication of ourselves which that trust requires ? Can we stand calmly , helplessly , and faithlessly by , and allow it to ...
... political trust ever committed to the hands of any other people - are we alone to be incapable of any and every dedication of ourselves which that trust requires ? Can we stand calmly , helplessly , and faithlessly by , and allow it to ...
Page 62
... had the entire confidence of Old Hickory . Certain it is he never had the sup- port of Amos Kendall , Francis P. Blair , or Andrew J. Donel- PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , 62 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... had the entire confidence of Old Hickory . Certain it is he never had the sup- port of Amos Kendall , Francis P. Blair , or Andrew J. Donel- PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , 62 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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John Wien Forney. PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , or Kitchen Cabinet ; yet not less true is it that , when James K. Polk was chosen President in 1844 , the venerable Jackson , then at the Hermitage ...
John Wien Forney. PENNSYLVANIAN POLITICIANS . 63 son , Jackson's immediate friends , or Kitchen Cabinet ; yet not less true is it that , when James K. Polk was chosen President in 1844 , the venerable Jackson , then at the Hermitage ...
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... politics , inquire after his wife , sons , and daughters by name , and enter into a familiar speculation as to the ... politicians at John W. Weaver's old - fashioned hotel in Potts- ville , we proceeded to the county seat of Berks ...
... politics , inquire after his wife , sons , and daughters by name , and enter into a familiar speculation as to the ... politicians at John W. Weaver's old - fashioned hotel in Potts- ville , we proceeded to the county seat of Berks ...
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