Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 2Harper, 1881 - Statesmen |
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Page 61
... Webster and Hayne on Foot's resolution . How bitter the conflict was the journals of the day will tell you . Webster was charged with having sold out to the Administration , though he never had any intercourse with it ; and it was only ...
... Webster and Hayne on Foot's resolution . How bitter the conflict was the journals of the day will tell you . Webster was charged with having sold out to the Administration , though he never had any intercourse with it ; and it was only ...
Page 62
... Webster siding with Clay , but refusing to echo his personal re- sentments . Time passed , and Benton , some years later , offered and carried his resolution to expunge the censure ; and the Sen- ate , changed over for Jackson , as it ...
... Webster siding with Clay , but refusing to echo his personal re- sentments . Time passed , and Benton , some years later , offered and carried his resolution to expunge the censure ; and the Sen- ate , changed over for Jackson , as it ...
Page 68
... Webster and Clay ; to the appeals of the Irish in their movement for Repeal in 1842 , and for Independence in 1848 ; to the successive popu- lar risings in France , Germany , Hungary , Belgium , Italy , and Spain , so will our ...
... Webster and Clay ; to the appeals of the Irish in their movement for Repeal in 1842 , and for Independence in 1848 ; to the successive popu- lar risings in France , Germany , Hungary , Belgium , Italy , and Spain , so will our ...
Page 102
... Webster , his Secretary of State , with Rufus Choate , and many others of equal note , had been cool to General Scott , the Whig candidate in 1852. The courtesies interchanged between the ex - President and the Pres- ident elect were ...
... Webster , his Secretary of State , with Rufus Choate , and many others of equal note , had been cool to General Scott , the Whig candidate in 1852. The courtesies interchanged between the ex - President and the Pres- ident elect were ...
Page 118
... Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward , Horace Greeley , Henry J. Raymond , George D. Pren- tice , Baillie Peyton , John Bell , George Ashmun , George Evans , and men of that school , not one of whom 118 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
... Webster , John J. Crittenden , W. H. Seward , Horace Greeley , Henry J. Raymond , George D. Pren- tice , Baillie Peyton , John Bell , George Ashmun , George Evans , and men of that school , not one of whom 118 ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN .
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