Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 100
... Kentucky Legislature . The part that he bore in the leg- islation and debates of that body soon marked him as a man reserved for no ordinary destiny . In 1851 he was nominated for Congress in this , the Ashland district , whose loyalty ...
... Kentucky Legislature . The part that he bore in the leg- islation and debates of that body soon marked him as a man reserved for no ordinary destiny . In 1851 he was nominated for Congress in this , the Ashland district , whose loyalty ...
Page 102
... Kentucky legislature . He was but five years beyond the constitutional requirement when elected to the Federal Congress . At thirty - five he was elected to the second office within the gift of the American people ; while at 40 he was ...
... Kentucky legislature . He was but five years beyond the constitutional requirement when elected to the Federal Congress . At thirty - five he was elected to the second office within the gift of the American people ; while at 40 he was ...
Page 103
... Kentucky , conscious of the peril she must meet , earn- estly strove to avert the conflict . None doubted , for all knew , that if coercion were attempted , her sympathies were with the South . Trusting to promises made , only to be ...
... Kentucky , conscious of the peril she must meet , earn- estly strove to avert the conflict . None doubted , for all knew , that if coercion were attempted , her sympathies were with the South . Trusting to promises made , only to be ...
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