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... elected to Congress , and served in the 28th and 29th Congresses . He was a substantial Whig member , social , cool , cautious , and given to prac- tical business . He retired , voluntarily , from further service , after the close of ...
... elected to Congress , and served in the 28th and 29th Congresses . He was a substantial Whig member , social , cool , cautious , and given to prac- tical business . He retired , voluntarily , from further service , after the close of ...
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... elected governor by a de- cisive majority . He received 21,335 votes ; and the Democratic candidate , George L. Becker , received 17,582 votes . Under Ramsey's leadership , the Republicans at- tained power , to be dislodged but once in ...
... elected governor by a de- cisive majority . He received 21,335 votes ; and the Democratic candidate , George L. Becker , received 17,582 votes . Under Ramsey's leadership , the Republicans at- tained power , to be dislodged but once in ...
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... elected president . The storm which had gathered , now burst in fury , and on a fatal Friday after- noon , April 12 , 1861 , treason fired its first shots at Fort Sumter , the portents of the bloody carnage to follow . For the first ...
... elected president . The storm which had gathered , now burst in fury , and on a fatal Friday after- noon , April 12 , 1861 , treason fired its first shots at Fort Sumter , the portents of the bloody carnage to follow . For the first ...
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... elected to the United States Senate . For twelve years he was a distinguished and working member of that illus- trious body . He served on its most important committees , and no senator has left a record of greater practical use ...
... elected to the United States Senate . For twelve years he was a distinguished and working member of that illus- trious body . He served on its most important committees , and no senator has left a record of greater practical use ...
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... elected . We love sometimes to look at distinguished men en déshabillé , not always in their robes of state . Let us view him personally . His social and colloquial qualities were of the best . In private life , he was a genial and ...
... elected . We love sometimes to look at distinguished men en déshabillé , not always in their robes of state . Let us view him personally . His social and colloquial qualities were of the best . In private life , he was a genial and ...
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Halaman 28 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Halaman 19 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Halaman 28 - I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this, with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What...
Halaman 193 - He was trained in the local schools, but was early transferred to the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated in 1857.
Halaman 302 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined, to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Halaman 208 - ... depression. The message was instinct with the courage of a patriot, and exhibited the farsightedness of a great statesman. Here is the message: "I have received your telegram. I will not support the resolution. It is against your real welfare. It is also a blow at the security, peace, and rights of millions who never harmed you or your associates. My duty to the "Constitution and the laws forbids me to sustain a resolution to legalize lawlessness. The same duty rests upon you and your associates....
Halaman 36 - America, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of the United States of America, entitled " An act to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject...
Halaman 73 - An act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and State government preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States...
Halaman 38 - Not far from where we now are, a dozen framed houses, not all completed, and some eight or ten small log buildings, with bark roofs, constituted the capital of the new territory over whose destiny I had been commissioned to preside.
Halaman 78 - Sibley with Indian affairs, and opened the way for an important clerkship in the American Fur Company, of which John Jacob Astor, of New York, was the head. This company gathered furs and pelts from vast regions in the Northwest. Sibley's first employment was at Mackinac, then the central depot of the great fur company, second only to thn.t of the Hudson Bay Company.