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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 116

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He spoke for six hours on the loan bill. The first three hours speech is summarized by the clerk "He gave a general view of the conduct of European belligerents as it affected this country and the course and policy of the American government during republican administration which he condemned throughout in the strongest terms." 1 The last three hours is but a continuation of the harangue. After a two terms service the house Mr. Pickering decline re-election and retired again to his farm near Winham, Massachusetts. 1
John Quincy Adams. "Of all Americans of his time he alone may be said to have been bred a statesman." From early boyhood he had lived in a political atmosphere. As a boy of eight, he witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill. at 14 he was secretary
1. Annals of Congress Vol 26 p. 1269

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114 He spoke for six hours on the loan bill. The first three hours speech is summarized by the clerk "He gave a general view of the conduct of European belligerents as it affected this country and the course and policy of the American government during republican administration which he condemned throughout in the strongest terms." 1 The last three hours is but a continuation of the harangue. After a two terms service the house Mr. Pickering decline re-election and retired again to his farm near Winham, Massachusetts. 1 John Quincy Adams. "Of all Americans of his time he alone may be said to have been bred a statesman." From early boyhood he had lived in a political atmosphere. As a boy of eight, he witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill. at 14 he was secretary 1. Annals of Congress Vol 26 p. 1269