The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, Volumen2James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... Confidence of his Party - An Address by the Whigs - Signing a Tariff Bill — An Administra- tion Characterized Only by Its Weakness - Life in Retirement and Service in the Confederate Congress ........ ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES K. POLK ...
... Confidence of his Party - An Address by the Whigs - Signing a Tariff Bill — An Administra- tion Characterized Only by Its Weakness - Life in Retirement and Service in the Confederate Congress ........ ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES K. POLK ...
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... confidence of a large political party . At the Democratic convention of 1844 , strenuous efforts were made to secure his nomination for another Presidential term . The rules of the convention , however , required a two - thirds vote for ...
... confidence of a large political party . At the Democratic convention of 1844 , strenuous efforts were made to secure his nomination for another Presidential term . The rules of the convention , however , required a two - thirds vote for ...
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... confidence and affection . of those with whom he was associated . The purity of his motives , the integrity of his character and the steadfastness of his friendships , attained and hold for him a rare measure of good - will and ...
... confidence and affection . of those with whom he was associated . The purity of his motives , the integrity of his character and the steadfastness of his friendships , attained and hold for him a rare measure of good - will and ...
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... confident that if the state of things which now exists had been at all apprehended by those states , the cession of the district would not . have been made except upon the express condition that congress should exercise no such power ...
... confident that if the state of things which now exists had been at all apprehended by those states , the cession of the district would not . have been made except upon the express condition that congress should exercise no such power ...
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... confidence of his superiors being well established , in the course of 1792 he was promoted to a lieutenancy , and late in the fall of that year . joined the new army then encamped at Legionville , some twenty miles below Pittsburgh , on ...
... confidence of his superiors being well established , in the course of 1792 he was promoted to a lieutenancy , and late in the fall of that year . joined the new army then encamped at Legionville , some twenty miles below Pittsburgh , on ...
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