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Page 55
... success of our arms may fail to secure a satisfactory peace . " Then he suggests the propriety of wheedling the Mexican people to desert the counsels of their own leaders , and , trusting in our protestations , to set up a government ...
... success of our arms may fail to secure a satisfactory peace . " Then he suggests the propriety of wheedling the Mexican people to desert the counsels of their own leaders , and , trusting in our protestations , to set up a government ...
Page 56
... successes , every department and every part , land and water , officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever be- fore been thought men could not do — after all ...
... successes , every department and every part , land and water , officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever be- fore been thought men could not do — after all ...
Page 65
... successful charges -charges to be sure , not upon the public enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Terri- tory , and ex - officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs , from the 9th of October , 1813 , till the ...
... successful charges -charges to be sure , not upon the public enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Terri- tory , and ex - officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs , from the 9th of October , 1813 , till the ...
Page 68
... successful . The leading rule for the lawyer , as for the man of every other calling , is diligence . Leave nothing for to - morrow which can be done to - day . Never let your correspondence fall behind . Whatever piece of business you ...
... successful . The leading rule for the lawyer , as for the man of every other calling , is diligence . Leave nothing for to - morrow which can be done to - day . Never let your correspondence fall behind . Whatever piece of business you ...
Page 98
... successful rival constitutionally elected , not by the strength of friends , but by the division of adversaries , being in a popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields ...
... successful rival constitutionally elected , not by the strength of friends , but by the division of adversaries , being in a popular minority of nearly four hundred thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields ...
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