Stormy Petrel: The Life and Times of General Benjamin F. Butler, 1818-1893Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1969 - 335 pages |
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... proposed constitution on account of its sectarian school provision.19 How- ever , a number of Whigs and Free - Soilers ( with not a Roman Catholic among them ) also wrote and spoke against the proposed constitution because they disliked ...
... proposed constitution on account of its sectarian school provision.19 How- ever , a number of Whigs and Free - Soilers ( with not a Roman Catholic among them ) also wrote and spoke against the proposed constitution because they disliked ...
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... proposed the addition of several planks to the Cincinnati platform . One would state that neither Congress nor any territorial legislature could prohibit slavery in any territory . Another would say that enactments of any state ...
... proposed the addition of several planks to the Cincinnati platform . One would state that neither Congress nor any territorial legislature could prohibit slavery in any territory . Another would say that enactments of any state ...
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... proposed an adjourn- ment until the following November because he thought all of the pressing business before the Congress had been completed . Butler immediately objected on the ground that the Thirty - ninth Con- gress had ordered a ...
... proposed an adjourn- ment until the following November because he thought all of the pressing business before the Congress had been completed . Butler immediately objected on the ground that the Thirty - ninth Con- gress had ordered a ...
Contents
Meet General Butler | 13 |
As the Twig is Bent | 20 |
A Practical Politician | 37 |
Copyright | |
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