This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...as it may, much might be said of the influences, the inconsistencies, the downright contradictions, which history records in connection with some of these declarations. It would be easy to impair the weight of much of this carefully gathered authority. It is chiefly valuable to prove how vastly the authority is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...as it may, much might be said of the influences, the inconsistencies, the downright contradictions, which history records in connection with some of these declarations. It would be easy to impair the weight of much of this carefully gathered authority. It is chiefly valuable to prove how vastly the authority is the other way. These collected sayings show us that the "one-term principle" has from time to time been presented sharply to the public mind. Persuasive voices have summoned people and Congress to consider it. It has not slumbered in forgetfulness, but has been periodically canvassed at such times as its champions deemed most likely to invest it with interest. It has been more than once presented in each House of Congress, and usually coupled with assisting provisions. What has been its fate? Congress has never approved it. The nation has condemned it repeatedly. Fifteen Presidents have been elected, and nearly half of them have been re-elected. Death spared President Harrison but one month, and President Taylor but sixteen months. These two must be deducted from those in whose case the question of a second term could arise. President Grant, not having reached the end of his first term, is to be omitted also in the count. Thus we have twelve citizens raised to the Presidency by the votes of the people, and six of them elected a second time. Was this the action of the people, or did these Presidents, despite the people, usurp or snatch a second term? Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, all were re-elected. Did the people re-elect them, or did the office-holders re-elect them? Did these second-term Presidents outwit the people by the use of patronage, or did they win and keep public favor by their fidelity and by the ide...
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Add this copy of Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling: Orator, Statesman, to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Shoemaker Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gettysburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by Charles L. Webster & Company.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 709+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Corners bumped. Small tear to top of spine at front hinge. Covers lightly rubbed. Includes a steel portrait frontispiece and 8 facsimiles of letters and a 306 Grant Medal. Contents nice.
Add this copy of Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling: Orator, Statesman, to cart. $39.00, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by Charles L. Webster & Co.
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Good. 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 709pp. with frontis of Conkling and plates with reprinted letters. Good. Boards are rubbed, both inside hinges loose but holding. Former owner's bookplate on pastedown, inscription to former owner on flyleaf. Includes inlaid articles about Conkling. Save for offsetting caused by inlaid newspaper on a couple of pages, text is clean and unmarked.
Add this copy of The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, Orator, to cart. $92.00, fair condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by Charles L. Webster & Co.
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Fair. 709, illus., facsims., some darkening to text, boards weak, rear flyleaf mostly detached, board & spine edges worn. Small piece missing at top of spine, small tears to top and bottom edges of spine, front flyleaf creased and small chip in side margin. Roscoe Conkling was one of the founders of the Republican Party; he served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This biography contains facsimile letters between Conkling and Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur, and a chapter on Senator Conkling and President Grant (pp. 316-337).
