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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 ,
the ...
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 ,
the ...
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... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive
majority of thirty - one . He was ther thirty - four years of age . His election to the
Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY
CLAY .
... and was immediately elected Speaker by the war party , by the decisive
majority of thirty - one . He was ther thirty - four years of age . His election to the
Speakership on his first appearance in the House gave him , at once 20 HENRY
CLAY .
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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
case in 1824 ...
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
case in 1824 ...
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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 , to have been ...
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 , to have been ...
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It was a rare stroke of art to get an old dotard of a member of Congress to publish
, twelve days before the election , that Mr . Clay had agreed to vote for Mr . Adams
, and that Mr . Adams had agreed to reward him by the office of Secretary of ...
It was a rare stroke of art to get an old dotard of a member of Congress to publish
, twelve days before the election , that Mr . Clay had agreed to vote for Mr . Adams
, and that Mr . Adams had agreed to reward him by the office of Secretary of ...
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