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... United States on the 4th of March 1865 , when Andrew Johnson was sworn in as Vice - President , has too often been painted to be set out into daylight again . Let it rest . I refer to it now only to relate one incident . After we ...
... United States on the 4th of March 1865 , when Andrew Johnson was sworn in as Vice - President , has too often been painted to be set out into daylight again . Let it rest . I refer to it now only to relate one incident . After we ...
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... United States by virtue of the act of annexation and admission into the Union . I will not say that I have demon- strated the question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say ...
... United States by virtue of the act of annexation and admission into the Union . I will not say that I have demon- strated the question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say ...
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... United States in which some 66 Old - line Whig " is not among the Democratic leaders . Most notable of these are the grandsons of John Quincy Adams . The living junior of that name is an accepted authority , and one of his brothers is ...
... United States in which some 66 Old - line Whig " is not among the Democratic leaders . Most notable of these are the grandsons of John Quincy Adams . The living junior of that name is an accepted authority , and one of his brothers is ...
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... United States , and both chosen by the anti - Democratic vote , and the son dy- ing a few weeks ago one of the captains of the Democracy - I feel that I have no right to question motives . Hiester Clymer , who ran for Governor against ...
... United States , and both chosen by the anti - Democratic vote , and the son dy- ing a few weeks ago one of the captains of the Democracy - I feel that I have no right to question motives . Hiester Clymer , who ran for Governor against ...
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... United America to redeem for the world the agonies they have cost it . Whatever , in that long period , other nations may have risen up to be , and however truly and illustriously a few of them may have prolonged their day and advanced ...
... United America to redeem for the world the agonies they have cost it . Whatever , in that long period , other nations may have risen up to be , and however truly and illustriously a few of them may have prolonged their day and advanced ...
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