The American Nation: Its Executive, Legislative, Political, Financial, Judicial and Industrial History : Embracing Sketches of the Lives of Its Chief Magistrates, Its Eminent Statesmen, Financiers, Soldiers and Jurists, with Monographs on Subjects of Peculiar Historical Interest, Том 1James Harrison Kennedy Williams Publishing Company, 1888 |
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... Early Life - Entrance Upon a Public Career ..... ... 533 Elected Senator - Accepts a Foreign Mission - In Monroe's Cabinet ............ .538 PAGE Chosen President - Real Civil Service Adopted - Difficulties CONTENTS .
... Early Life - Entrance Upon a Public Career ..... ... 533 Elected Senator - Accepts a Foreign Mission - In Monroe's Cabinet ............ .538 PAGE Chosen President - Real Civil Service Adopted - Difficulties CONTENTS .
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... Adopted - Difficulties of Administration— Reëlection Defeated ............. ..54.9 Again a Member of Congress .......... .556 His Course on the Slavery Question ........... ..560 Last Years of Congressional Service - Stricken with Death ...
... Adopted - Difficulties of Administration— Reëlection Defeated ............. ..54.9 Again a Member of Congress .......... .556 His Course on the Slavery Question ........... ..560 Last Years of Congressional Service - Stricken with Death ...
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... adopted . As the other New England colonies were created , they formed them- selves upon the Massachusetts model . When the Connecticut settle- ments formulated their constitution in 1639 , there was nothing in it to show that a mother ...
... adopted . As the other New England colonies were created , they formed them- selves upon the Massachusetts model . When the Connecticut settle- ments formulated their constitution in 1639 , there was nothing in it to show that a mother ...
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... , to which the members of the colony came direct , but in 1639 a repre- sentative government was adopted . In the Carolinas , the charter of 1653 gave to the people religious freedom and a XXXII THE AMERICAN NATION .
... , to which the members of the colony came direct , but in 1639 a repre- sentative government was adopted . In the Carolinas , the charter of 1653 gave to the people religious freedom and a XXXII THE AMERICAN NATION .
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... adopted , for the first time , an expedient that has often since served the American people in their times of need . He made a proclamation set- ting aside two hundred thousand acres of land on the Ohio river , to be divided as bounty ...
... adopted , for the first time , an expedient that has often since served the American people in their times of need . He made a proclamation set- ting aside two hundred thousand acres of land on the Ohio river , to be divided as bounty ...
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