Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... Washington , Boston , May 13 , 1859 THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 . A Speech delivered at the Union Ratification Meeting in Boston , Sept. 25 , 1860 • TRIBUTE TO HON . NATHAN APPLETON . Remarks made at a Meeting of the Massachusetts ...
... Washington , Boston , May 13 , 1859 THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 . A Speech delivered at the Union Ratification Meeting in Boston , Sept. 25 , 1860 • TRIBUTE TO HON . NATHAN APPLETON . Remarks made at a Meeting of the Massachusetts ...
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... WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY . · • A Speech at the Celebration of the Birthday of Washington by the Bos- ton Light Infantry Association , Feb. 22 , 1863 . 541 546 553 TRIBUTE TO CRITTENDEN . Remarks made at a Meeting of the Massachusetts ...
... WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY . · • A Speech at the Celebration of the Birthday of Washington by the Bos- ton Light Infantry Association , Feb. 22 , 1863 . 541 546 553 TRIBUTE TO CRITTENDEN . Remarks made at a Meeting of the Massachusetts ...
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... Washington , to name no others among the dead or among the living , when will any American University be able to point to names upon its catalogue of Alumni which may be likened to these names , for the originality and profoundness of ...
... Washington , to name no others among the dead or among the living , when will any American University be able to point to names upon its catalogue of Alumni which may be likened to these names , for the originality and profoundness of ...
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... Washington are suffered to be drawn into dispute , and even to be derided as temporary . And , for a moment , the ship of state seems reeling before the blast , and trembling , as for a fatal plunge , upon the verge of an unfathomed and ...
... Washington are suffered to be drawn into dispute , and even to be derided as temporary . And , for a moment , the ship of state seems reeling before the blast , and trembling , as for a fatal plunge , upon the verge of an unfathomed and ...
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... last year ' or two , by President Hitchcock's report to our own Legislature , by Dr. Lee's reports to the Patent Office at Washington , and by the lectures and addresses in which it has been treated 66 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE .
... last year ' or two , by President Hitchcock's report to our own Legislature , by Dr. Lee's reports to the Patent Office at Washington , and by the lectures and addresses in which it has been treated 66 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE .
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