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Death Of The Greatest Man Of The 19th Century

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Day
8
Month
February
Year
1893
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Public Domain
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llim. .lames (i. lUnine lias pütssed over to the great májorityi and t)ie world i-i mourning the loss. Mr. Blfline was the Wol oí ixty minimis of people, the Uwrering glant ol American siaicsniMiisiii]!. the defender of Anierkíiii honor and institutions, the inalchless orator of the Dnlted States sonate, tiie greateet American of the age. Upon lus eloquent tongue our iiationai congreae bang tor thirty yenrs enrapt, and hls evrry public utterane the nations of the eartb inclined their ear to catcli. In suiuming np liis oiiileiful powera and pnWiC virl nes, it is luit just to say. lie was as Wtee and di]i!omati as Itcnjamin ï'rankiin, as patriotic as (ieorge nirton.as versatiie and eloqiieni as Henry Clay, em ino.oun I and power ful as Daniel Webster. In a word he was the greateet American tiiat ■ ver lived. He rain' [rom the ranks and he rose from ol.s.urity to the pionacle of turne, and hla dlsting-nisJied servlcee in lioth honses óf oongrefH and In ihe caWnetg of two presidente has made his name famons throu.irhont the world, and every peesou is anxioue to read tlie story of liis woiidorinl career. T. C. Crawford Msci.. 'lm lias su ably prepared the life ol' Mr. J'.laine. lia enjoyed the confldence of Mr. Blatoe for upwards of twenty years. and was liis niosi conïidentiiii frl nd and ompan'.on in yeai s past; also jiassed ttoongb political (■:amiaiiiiis and in travels aUroad has made him eminently fltted to prepare i,iiis in-k better than any living man. The book is endorsed liy ihose irom politica] and literary lite, and there is not a doubt but wbAt Mr. Crawïdrd's "Life of James (. l'.laine" will :wive a jihenomenal Bale a.s it should Published by E. R. Curtis ft Co., ('inoinnati, Ohio, wlio will take pleasure in mailing copies, postage prepald on reeeipt of $2.00. See advertisomont in another eolumn of this paper.

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Ann Arbor Courier