This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...incurred a reproach from which they have not as yet been wholly relieved. How, then, could Mr. Clay have been expected to put upon the people a president prostrated in body and mind? He was then left to choose between Jackson and Adams. The very proposition itself is enough to secure for the integrity ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...incurred a reproach from which they have not as yet been wholly relieved. How, then, could Mr. Clay have been expected to put upon the people a president prostrated in body and mind? He was then left to choose between Jackson and Adams. The very proposition itself is enough to secure for the integrity of his course and his motives the most convincing proof. No man, who knew any thing of the abilities and morals of the two characters, can hold up his head for a moment, and say that such a statesman as Mr. Clay should have supported General Jackson in preference to Mr. Adams. It is one of those self-evident kind of cases upon which the mind cannot reason without surrendering its honesty; and when that is required, you must go to some other man than to Mr. Clay. Such kind of loose virtue belongs to Amos Kendall, Francis P.Blair, William B. Lewis, and Isaac Hill; men who take all sorts of ways, but that of honesty, to effect their objects, and then abuse every one else who will not do the same things. The election over, in which Mr. Calhoun and his able South Carolina coadjutors had taken a decided part for General Jackson, parties began to form again. The very astonishing vote which General Jackson had obtained, made Van Buren and his friends stare as if they had heen shot at. He now found he had, for a wonder, made a great miscalculation; but he knew it could easily be repaired, by enlisting his great state, for the next campaign, in favour of Jackson. This was rendered the more plausible from the misfortune which had attended his own favourite, who, of course, was withdrawn from further competitionAdd to this, Mr. Clay, whose great talents and virtue he both envied and dreaded, was now, from necessity and duty, connected with the political...
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Add this copy of Life of Martin Van Buren to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by Archives Book Shop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1845 by Nafis & Cornish.
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Good with no dust jacket; Boards: edgewear, bumped corners, soiled, rubbed, corners lightly fraying. Page edges darkened. Foxed endpapers and flyleaves. Blue-grey cloth with blinstamp design and central gilt image on front cover; gilt title and flourishes on spine, darkened; binding tight, pages mostly clean with mild shadowing and soiling here and there. Engraved portrait frontispiece.; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 209 pages.
Add this copy of The Life of Martin Van Buren, : Heir-Apparent to the to cart. $327.49, good condition, Sold by Griffin Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stamford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1835 by R. Wright.
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Good-Used in None as Issued jacket. 1/4 leather blue cloth 1835 Robert White, pages toned hinges intact. Leather spine split along 3/4 of the back strip. A few extraneous marks endpapers Please email for photos.
