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Showing posts with label Truman Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truman Smith. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2026

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown on the subject of the Public Printing, and Against the Action of the Joint Committee in Taking It from the Contractor and Dividing It Between the "Union" and the "Republic" Newspapers, Delivered in the United States House of Representatives, April 13 and 14, 1852

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MR. BROWN said: I do not intend to detain the House by anything like an elaborate speech upon the subject of the public printing. In the few...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, February 16, 1866

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After Cabinet-meeting I had an interview and pretty free interchange of opinion with the President on the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and oth...

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 17, 1866

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Governor Morgan called this morning on matters of business. Had some talk on current matters. He says Tennessee Representatives will be admi...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Senator Truman Smith to James S. Pike, August 22, 1850

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Washington City , August 26, 1850. Dear Sir : Pursuant to order, I this morning went at the Hon. Corwin, Pike in hand, and I have to sa...
Monday, March 9, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Good Friday, March 29, 1861

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The religious observance of the day was not quite as strict as it would be in England. The Puritan aversion to ceremonials and formulary ob...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Senator Truman Smith to James S. Pike, December 26, 1859

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New-York City , 49 wall Street ,} December 26, 1859.} My Dear Sir : I have long been of the opinion that the question of slavery in o...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: March 26, 1861

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After our pleasant breakfast came that necessity for activity which makes such meals disguised as mere light morning repasts take their rev...