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Showing posts with label James Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Brooks. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Diary of George Templeton Strong, November 5, 1860

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With William Schermerhorn to Columbia College Board meeting at two o’clock. Unusual amount of business, mostly unimportant. Treasurer’s repo...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Congressman Albert G. Brown’s Speech on the Slavery Question, August 29, 1850

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SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 29, 1850. MR. BROWN said he designed to make a few remarks only in reply to the gentleman f...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

Diary of Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes: December 4, 1865

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We organized the House according to programme. Mr. Brooks, [Democrat,] of New York, undertook to make some opposition but the previous quest...

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: December 7, 1865

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WASHINGTON, D. C. December 7, 1865. MY DARLING: Thanksgiving morning before breakfast. So far I have no very decided feeling about the lif...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, January 23, 1865

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There was a smart brush in the House to-day between Brooks and Stevens, the cause of controversy General Butler, or rather a letter which Br...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, April 30, 1864

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The Wilkes court martial found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to three years’ suspension and a reprimand. It is a light punish...