The Life of Samuel J. Tilden, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1895 - 1358 pages |
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... Favors the bill for an international park and for the protection of the Adirondack forests - ― CHAPTER X 289-346 ... favor of Tilden's renomination for the presidency in 1884 404-410 APPENDIX C Miss Gould's list of the books read to ...
... Favors the bill for an international park and for the protection of the Adirondack forests - ― CHAPTER X 289-346 ... favor of Tilden's renomination for the presidency in 1884 404-410 APPENDIX C Miss Gould's list of the books read to ...
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... favor of it . Then on one occasion William E. Chandler came to me and stated that he didn't like to say it to me , but he would say it to me , and he spoke for General Wallace also , that if the State went and was canvassed for Mr ...
... favor of it . Then on one occasion William E. Chandler came to me and stated that he didn't like to say it to me , but he would say it to me , and he spoke for General Wallace also , that if the State went and was canvassed for Mr ...
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... favors expected , was ap- pointed envoy extraordinary to Austria . Lew Wallace , for like service , was appointed Governor of New Mexico , declining which , he was sent to Constanti- nople as minister - resident . F. N. Wicker , the ...
... favors expected , was ap- pointed envoy extraordinary to Austria . Lew Wallace , for like service , was appointed Governor of New Mexico , declining which , he was sent to Constanti- nople as minister - resident . F. N. Wicker , the ...
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... to each other , did not prevent Morton's scheme finding favor with his partisans in Congress , who seemed to have reached the conviction that the end of defeating Tilden would sanctify any SCHEME FOR COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES 59.
... to each other , did not prevent Morton's scheme finding favor with his partisans in Congress , who seemed to have reached the conviction that the end of defeating Tilden would sanctify any SCHEME FOR COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES 59.
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... favor these acts have been committed ; that the elections were held under the surveillance of troops of the United States , without any constitutional warrant for their presence , and that the judicial decisions thus set at naught ...
... favor these acts have been committed ; that the elections were held under the surveillance of troops of the United States , without any constitutional warrant for their presence , and that the judicial decisions thus set at naught ...
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Page 305 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness...
Page 276 - I shall correct the procedure ; but that done, return with joy to that state of things, when the only questions concerning a candidate shall be, is he honest ? Is he capable ? Is he faithful to the Constitution ? I tender you the homage of my high respect.
Page 303 - At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent.
Page 305 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
Page 307 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 303 - ... Minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the Minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange, by amicable negotiation, the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the north-west coast of this continent.
Page 306 - It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it. And if to facilitate this we can effect a division in the body of the European powers and draw over to our side its most powerful member surely we should do it.
Page 304 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 305 - But the war in which the present proposition might engage us, should that be its consequence, is not her war but ours. Its object is to introduce and establish the American system of keeping out of our land all foreign powers, of never permitting those of Europe to intermeddle with the affairs of our nations. It is to maintain our own principle, not to depart from it.
Page 264 - Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.