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Page 35
... vote . In the present condition of politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and ...
... vote . In the present condition of politics I have preferred to let events take their course , so far as I am concerned , maintaining the position I have held for the last two years of uncompromising hostility to the proscriptive and ...
Page 41
... voted for the " favorite son " because they believed the impassioned Georgian . Yet as the controversy deepened Governor Cobb yielded to the exactions of his section , and when the rebellion burst upon us he was one of the foremost and ...
... voted for the " favorite son " because they believed the impassioned Georgian . Yet as the controversy deepened Governor Cobb yielded to the exactions of his section , and when the rebellion burst upon us he was one of the foremost and ...
Page 42
... vote for the bill as a war measure - I am in favor of carrying on the war to crush out the rebellion . " The same day McDougall questioned the right of Powell , of Kentucky , to his seat in the Senate . Andrew Johnson reiterated his ...
... vote for the bill as a war measure - I am in favor of carrying on the war to crush out the rebellion . " The same day McDougall questioned the right of Powell , of Kentucky , to his seat in the Senate . Andrew Johnson reiterated his ...
Page 55
... 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 John W. Geary , of the same State , in 1866 , is another ...
... 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 John W. Geary , of the same State , in 1866 , is another ...
Page 62
... voted friend , a chivalric foe , he has left a record honorable to himself , his posterity , and his country . McDowell died in August of 1851 , in less than a year after his noble speech from which I quote , aged fifty - five . Lovejoy ...
... voted friend , a chivalric foe , he has left a record honorable to himself , his posterity , and his country . McDowell died in August of 1851 , in less than a year after his noble speech from which I quote , aged fifty - five . Lovejoy ...
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