Early Indiana Trials and Sketches: ReminiscencesMoore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, printers, 1858 - 640 pages |
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... politics ; my ambition was to make myself a good lawyer . I was elected , however , and the next winter found me at Corydon a representative of Fayette . It so happened that it was the greenest Legislature ever convened in the State ...
... politics ; my ambition was to make myself a good lawyer . I was elected , however , and the next winter found me at Corydon a representative of Fayette . It so happened that it was the greenest Legislature ever convened in the State ...
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... POLITICAL PREACHER " IN A " FIX . " I WAS early initiated at Connersville into the mysteries of election- eering , by several of the most adroit men of the country . Among them I name Marks Crume , who afterward held several high ...
... POLITICAL PREACHER " IN A " FIX . " I WAS early initiated at Connersville into the mysteries of election- eering , by several of the most adroit men of the country . Among them I name Marks Crume , who afterward held several high ...
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... political life . The morning paper gave us notice that he had declined . Crume was elected without further opposition , and , best of all , he gave me his vote for United States Senator . CORONER CONNERY OUTDONE . THE recent mockery in ...
... political life . The morning paper gave us notice that he had declined . Crume was elected without further opposition , and , best of all , he gave me his vote for United States Senator . CORONER CONNERY OUTDONE . THE recent mockery in ...
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Reminiscences Oliver Hampton Smith. [ WEDNESDAY MORNING , AUGUST 5 , 1857 . A POLITICAL JURY . THE Fayette Circuit ... politics . James Rari- den , John T. Mc Kinney and Gen. James Noble appeared for the defen- dant . The regular panel ...
Reminiscences Oliver Hampton Smith. [ WEDNESDAY MORNING , AUGUST 5 , 1857 . A POLITICAL JURY . THE Fayette Circuit ... politics . James Rari- den , John T. Mc Kinney and Gen. James Noble appeared for the defen- dant . The regular panel ...
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... political opponents , come to let me know that the vote of their township had gone against me . Spencer .- " How many votes do you think you got in our township ? " " None , if you had any sense . " " What do you mean by that ? " " I ...
... political opponents , come to let me know that the vote of their township had gone against me . Spencer .- " How many votes do you think you got in our township ? " " None , if you had any sense . " " What do you mean by that ? " " I ...
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