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The Blairs were a clan as well as a family. The quarrel of one was the quarrel of all, and the Missouri Radicals had no more effective antagonist than the old Washington editor and politician, Francis P. Blair, Sr., the family's head, who was so intimate with the President that it was understood he could at any time enter the White House by the kitchen door.
Both the Blairs and the Treacys had been intimate and old Seward Blair, when he died about a year before, had left his fortune to his son on the condition that he marry Veda Treacy. "Sometimes," faltered Mrs. Blair, "it is as though I had two souls. One of them is dispossessed of its body and the use of its organs and is frantic at the sight of the other that has crept in."
Stone arrested Sumner's resolutions infuse a new spirit in the Constitution Mr. Seward beyond salvation He works to save slavery Weed has ruined him The New York press "Poor Tribune" The Evening Post The Blairs Illusions dispelled "All quiet on the Potomac" The London papers Quill-heroes can be bought for a dinner French opinion Superhuman efforts to save slavery It is doomed!
It was an alluring face, and moved you so to tenderness, to do battle, to give protection, that it hurt. "Throw off your hat, Malise," suggested Molly. "Celeste, take her parasol from that chair. There is so much to hear about. I asked la femme de charge, when she was in this morning, if she'd ever heard of the Blairs.
He repeated the word aloud. "You do not recall?" said Maria Angelina chokingly. "Though indeed, there is no reason why you should. It was but for a moment " She glanced up to see recognition leap amazedly into his face. "The little Signorina! The Blairs' little Signorina!" "Maria Angelina Santonini," she told him soberly. "Yes, that is I." "Why of course I remember," he insisted.
Mason and Slidell caught. England will roar, but here the people are satisfied. Some of the diplomats make curious faces. Lord Lyons behaves with dignity. The small Bremen flatter right and left, and do it like little lap-dogs. Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, ex-Governor Boutwell, are tip-top men men of the people. The Blairs are too heinous, too violent, in their persecution of Fremont.
The Carters, the Blairs, the Fitzhughs, the Hansons, the Randolphs, the Lees, the Ludwells, the Joneses, the Beverleys, the Tarletons a whole catalogue of them stretched back in his memory. He knew the coat of arms displayed by each house. He could repeat their legends. "I wish you could tell me more," he went on.
Whether Benton was ever an Abolitionist or not, has been a much-disputed question, but one thing is certain, and that is that the men who sat at his feet, who were his closest disciples and imbibed the most of his spirit such as B. Gratz Brown, John How, the Blairs, the Filleys, and other influential Missourians, were Abolitionists.
"We have succeeded in securing the loan on a mortgage on the boat. Cowan arranged it through his bank. It was at a higher rate than we had agreed on, but we'd lost all the time we could spare. We'll push ahead now and have things finished by spring." That night, over at the Blairs', as Alexina climbed into her place at the table Austen was speaking to Harriet.
As they went on they passed the house of the Blairs, where he caught a glimpse of Margaret on the porch, parting from the handsome young clergyman. The sight stirred him strangely, as if the memory of his dead life had been awakened by a scent or a faded flower in a book.
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