. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. QytJt»$4t^^ /(.(Jy<*i^t^tA-tto^c^^y. of Pennsylvania 617 and with two Democratic representatives being absentwithout pairs. It was a most desperate struggle, andonly one of Quays masterly political ingenuity andskillful control of Democrats of easy virtue could havewon out in the fight. Thus ended Quays last great battle, when he was thecentral figure of the
. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. QytJt»$4t^^ /(.(Jy<*i^t^tA-tto^c^^y. of Pennsylvania 617 and with two Democratic representatives being absentwithout pairs. It was a most desperate struggle, andonly one of Quays masterly political ingenuity andskillful control of Democrats of easy virtue could havewon out in the fight. Thus ended Quays last great battle, when he was thecentral figure of the contest, and as he had regained hisposition in the Senate for a four year term, and publiclyannounced his jjurpose not again to be a candidate forany ofiice, the factional feeling that had harassed himfor many years gradually perished. On the 14th of May, several months after his election,he was invited to address the State League of Republi-can Clubs in the Philadelphia Academy of Music, andhis speech on that occasion will be cherished as a opening sentence was: At three score years andten the world grows lonely; through wilderness almostdesolate the stream of life lies darkly toward theeternal guU, ajid that was followed by this utterance:* My political
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