The Life of James Gillespie Blaine: By John H. Landis and Israel Smith ClareNew Era printing house, 1884 - 220 páginas |
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... polling - booth , that you shall not have the embodiment of rascality behind it to vitiate and destroy the purity of elections within . NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1876 . Mr. Blaine's dash and brilliancy as the Republican leader ...
... polling - booth , that you shall not have the embodiment of rascality behind it to vitiate and destroy the purity of elections within . NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OF 1876 . Mr. Blaine's dash and brilliancy as the Republican leader ...
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... polling - places were regarded as forts to be captured by one party and held against the other , and where this could not be done with convenience , frauds in the count and tissue - ballot devices were re- sorted to in order to ...
... polling - places were regarded as forts to be captured by one party and held against the other , and where this could not be done with convenience , frauds in the count and tissue - ballot devices were re- sorted to in order to ...
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... polls , where a voter did not have the fullest , fairest , freest opportunity to cast the ballot of his choice , and have it honestly and faithfully counted in the returns . Suffrage on this continent was first made universal in New ...
... polls , where a voter did not have the fullest , fairest , freest opportunity to cast the ballot of his choice , and have it honestly and faithfully counted in the returns . Suffrage on this continent was first made universal in New ...
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... polls . peace at The object of the proposed section , which has just been read at the Clerk's desk , is to get rid of the eight closing words , namely , " or to keep the peace at the polls , " and therefore the mode of legislation ...
... polls . peace at The object of the proposed section , which has just been read at the Clerk's desk , is to get rid of the eight closing words , namely , " or to keep the peace at the polls , " and therefore the mode of legislation ...
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... book in regard to the use of troops at the polls . The Republican party did it with the Senate and the House in their control . Abraham Lincoln signed it when he was Commander - in - Chief 8 IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE . 101.
... book in regard to the use of troops at the polls . The Republican party did it with the Senate and the House in their control . Abraham Lincoln signed it when he was Commander - in - Chief 8 IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE . 101.
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Página 216 - What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes whose lips may tell — what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties! Behind him a proud expectant nation; a great host...
Página 63 - Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Elaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor.
Página 217 - Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a farther shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning JAMES G.
Página 216 - ... life lay in his ; the little boys not yet emerged from childhood's day of frolic ; the fair young daughter ; the sturdy sons just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day and every day rewarding a father's love and care; and in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demands.
Página 206 - Duke. No might nor greatne'ss in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? But who comes here ? Enter ESCALUS, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Página 190 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Página 187 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the bloodshot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Página 203 - Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in his contests from 1865 to 1868, actually advanced his parliamentary leadership until Congress tied the hands of the President and governed the country by its own will, leaving only perfunctory duties to be discharged by the Executive. With two hundred millions of patronage in his hands at the opening of the contest, aided by the active force of Seward in the Cabinet and the moral power of Chase on the Bench, Andrew Johnson could not command the support of -one-third in either...
Página 206 - One aspect of Garfield's candidacy was unprecedented. Never before, in the history of partisan contests in this country, had a successful Presidential candidate spoken freely on passing events and current issues. To attempt anything of the kind seemed novel, rash, and even desperate.