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“ Could my life insure the success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , ” exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment ...
“ Could my life insure the success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , ” exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment ...
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... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive majority of thirty - one . He was then thirty - four years of age . His election to the Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 ...
... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive majority of thirty - one . He was then thirty - four years of age . His election to the Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 ...
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If the city of Washington had been the United States , if the House of Representatives had possessed the right to elect a President , Henry Clay might have been its choice . During the thirteen years of his Speakership not one ...
If the city of Washington had been the United States , if the House of Representatives had possessed the right to elect a President , Henry Clay might have been its choice . During the thirteen years of his Speakership not one ...
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He was the head and choice of a great political party ; in the principles of that party he fully believed ; and we think he did truly desire an election to the Presidency more from conviction than ambition . This may not have been the ...
He was the head and choice of a great political party ; in the principles of that party he fully believed ; and we think he did truly desire an election to the Presidency more from conviction than ambition . This may not have been the ...
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No reader needs to be informed that Mr. Clay and his friends were able to decide the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think ...
No reader needs to be informed that Mr. Clay and his friends were able to decide the election , and that they decided it in favor of Mr. Adams . We believe that Mr. Clay was wrong in so doing . As a Democrat he ought , we think ...
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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