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... Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the Mexican war , and the Democrats were as sure I had the best of him : but neither side knew that more than once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were ...
... Whigs were sure that he had the best of me during the Mexican war , and the Democrats were as sure I had the best of him : but neither side knew that more than once the severest things we said of each other were written when we were ...
Page 49
... Whigs as earnest as young Delano and Schenck , of Ohio , who were in the same House , one of them now General Grant's Secretary of the Interior , and the other his Minister to England . In this same Congress , a Representative from ...
... Whigs as earnest as young Delano and Schenck , of Ohio , who were in the same House , one of them now General Grant's Secretary of the Interior , and the other his Minister to England . In this same Congress , a Representative from ...
Page 54
... Whig States as Maryland and Kentucky . They could not so readily forget their devotion to Clay and their hatred of Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions ...
... Whig States as Maryland and Kentucky . They could not so readily forget their devotion to Clay and their hatred of Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions ...
Page 55
... Whig son of a Federal father , in the county of Lancaster , Pennsylvania - both having served that great district in the Congress of the United States , and both chosen by the anti - Democratic vote , and the son dy- ing a few weeks ago ...
... Whig son of a Federal father , in the county of Lancaster , Pennsylvania - both having served that great district in the Congress of the United States , and both chosen by the anti - Democratic vote , and the son dy- ing a few weeks ago ...
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... Whig nomina- tion for President at the Baltimore Convention in 1852 , which he attended as a delegate from Massachusetts , and that from that hour his allegiance to his favorite party began to weaken , until 1856 , when he took ground ...
... Whig nomina- tion for President at the Baltimore Convention in 1852 , which he attended as a delegate from Massachusetts , and that from that hour his allegiance to his favorite party began to weaken , until 1856 , when he took ground ...
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