Book/Printed Material Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an appendix, containing selections from his writings ... with other valuable documents, among which will be found the late letter of Colonel Thos. H. Benton, to the Convention of the state of Mississippi.
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- Date: 1835
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Image 7 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... BIOGEAPHY OP VICE PRESIDENT OF THE -CTHITED STATES. WITH AK GONTATNIXG SELECTION S FROM HIS WRITINGS, INCLUDING HIS SPEECHF-S IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE CLAIMS OF IHE SOLDIERS...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 8 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... Kntercd according to Act of Congress, in the year !8o5, by WiLxiATsi Emwojts, iu the Clert s Office of the District Court of the Distj ict of Columbia.- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
- Date: 1835
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Image 9 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... PREFACE. In presenting to the American citizens a Biogra- phy of one of our distinguished Democratic States- men, I kel that I need not apologize, as I do it with feelings of...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 10 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... lY PREFACE. prospects before him, confident as I am, that the same power which has sustained and propelled him onward, will again cluster around, and through him, carry out the principles begun...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 11 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... PREFACE. T unimpaired to them as your last best legacy. Re- member the Reign of Kings is hastening to decay. The Government then of right, belongs to the sovereign people, before whom...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 12 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... PREFACE. not only illustrate and verify many of the statements in the biography; but will exhibit the sound, demo- cratic and statesman-like principles, by which his pub- lic conduct has been governed,...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 15 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... BIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN VAN BUREN, OF NEW-YOllK. Martin Van Buren was born at Kinder- hook, in the county of Columbia, and state of New- York, on the 5th of December, 1782. He...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 16 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 2 BIOGRAPHY OF The subject of this memoir displayed, in early boyhood, endowments so superior, that his family resolved to educate him for the bar. He was accord- jpgly placed, at the...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 17 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 3 was admitted as attorney and councellor, and thus en- rolled in the Columbia bar, then numbering among its members several of the first men in the state; but...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 18 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 4 BIOGRAPHY OF and a democrat; he was destitute of fortune and in need of patronage; and yet he would neither wor ship at the shrine of wealth, nor court the favor...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 19 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 5 most celebrated jury lawyer in the state, and proba- bly in the Union, then in the prime of manhood, and nearly at the zenith of his fame. In...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 20 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 6 BIOGRAPHY OF the first talents in the state, and with such success, that on the republicans regaining their ascendency, he was appointed, in February, 1815, Attorney-Gener- al of the state, in...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 21 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN TAN BUREN. 7 secured to him an extensive and lucrative business, which would doubtless have increased to the highest amount known to the American bar, if his labors in his profession...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 22 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 8 BIOGRAPHY. OP preparatory studies. We mention this for the pur- pose of reminding the junior members of the bar, that if they would emulate and equal the successful career we have...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 23 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 9 man in whose office he was a student was a high toned federaHst; so was a near and much loved relative, his earliest patron. A majority of the...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 24 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 10 BIOGRAPHY OF lives. On that occasion he assisted the veteran po- liticians, with whom he v^^as associated, in preparing an address to the electors. During the residue of his minority he...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 25 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MART N VAN rUREN. J| In 1807 the democratic party was again divided between Lewis and Tompkins, and Mr. Van Buren again acting in unison with the majority, was among the most...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 26 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... J 2 BIOGKAPHY OF all circumstances. Neither the contumely of inflated wealth, nor the opposition of invidious talent, nor the weekly revilings of a licentious press, nor a suc- cession of defeats...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 27 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 13 prominent. Opponents. The republicans of his coun- ty were convened on the subject. He delivered to Ihem a powerful speech against the proposed appli- cation, which was denounced...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 28 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 14: filOGRAPHY OF ly to that gentleman. He was also prompted to this course by an impression, that the character and mea- sures of the existing administration were not suffi- ciently decisive...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 29 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MAKTIN VAN BUREN. |5 and whose re-election seemed essential to the prose- cution of the war if not to the existence of the gov- ernment. On this occasion he wrote the address...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 30 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 16 BIOGRAPHY or branch. This led to several public conferences, in which the points in controversy involving not only the particular measures in dispute, but the justice and expediency of the w^ar,...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 31 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 17 preparative of short notes; and Mr. Van Buren, who was then in feeble health, had neither time nor strength to write it out. In September, IS14, the legislature...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 32 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 18 BIOGRAPHY OF pers and extensively circulated and from the high reputation of their learned and estimable author, they were eminently calculated to excite doubts as to the validity of the laws,...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 33 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 10 -appointed by the legislature, a Regent of the Uni- versity. In 1816, he was re-elected to the Senate, and re- mained in that body until 1820, when his...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 34 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 20 BIOGRAPHY OF without cause, we stop not to inquire gave little satisfaction to the democracy of the state. A divi- sioH of the party soon after took place the great mass,...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 35 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUIIEN. 21 office of Attorney General was tendered to Mr. Van Buren by his political friends, but being declined by him, he was appointed in February 1821, a senator in...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 36 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 22 BIOGBAPIIY OF entitled to the other, and we doubt not posterity will deem it higher, praise the praise which belongs to independence, magnanimity and virtue. He entered it under circumstances most...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 37 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 23 He tooV his seat in the Senate of the United States in December, 1821. In 1827, he was re- would in a political point of view, be the...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 38 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 24 BIOGRAPHY OF elected to the same station. To describe i;he share taken by him in the proceedings of the Senate, would be to copy the journals of that body for the...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 39 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... MARTIN VAN BUREN. 25 home in legislative assemblies, has no application to the American bar. Of this, Mr. Van Buren fur- nishes a new and signal proof. In the Senate of New-...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
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Image 40 of Biography of Martin Van Buren, vice president of the United States. With an ... 26 BIOGRAPHY OF petuate his speeches, whether at the bar or in the Senate. His^ utterance is so rapid, that no short hand writer can follow him with accuracy; and he has...- Contributor: Emmons, William - Benton, Thomas Hart
- Date: 1835