| James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 896 pages
...brother Ezckiel : " The caucus has hurt nobody but its friends, as far as I can now judge. Mr. Adams' chance seems to increase, and he and General Jackson...mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." A few weeks later : " As to President, Jackson seems to be making head yet, Arbuthnot and Ambrister... | |
| William Graham Sumner - 1882 - 422 pages
...dangerous man." 8 On the contrary, Jackson's courtly bearing won for him all the ladies. Webster wrote, " General Jackson's manners are more presidential than...mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." 4 Jackson'a friends induced him to have a kind of reconciliation with Scott, Clay, and Benton. The... | |
| William Graham Sumner - History - 1882 - 458 pages
...dangerous man." 8 On the contrary, Jackson's courtly bearing won for him all the ladies. Webster wrote, " General Jackson's manners are more presidential than...mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." 4 Jackson's friends induced him to have a kind of reconciliation with Scott, Clay, and Benton. The... | |
| Literature - 1884 - 990 pages
...election of Adams, Daniel Webster had written to his brother: "General Jackson's manners are better ~N 0 g ݙ63 %O ʖ;U; X pɏˤ|o{I q o k V W R1 hS NvՁ Hr GKu U + bP4F# D And long after, when the President was to pass in review before those who were perhaps his most implacable... | |
| Literature - 1884 - 1082 pages
...election of Adams, Daniel Webster had written to his brother: "General Jackson's manners are better than those of any of. the candidates. He is grave,...mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." And long after, when the President was to pass in review before those who were perhaps his most implacable... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1885 - 492 pages
...election of Adams, Daniel Webster had written to his brother: "General Jackson's manners are better than those of any of the candidates. He is grave, mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." And long after, when the President was to pass in review before those who were perhaps his most implacable... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1886 - 504 pages
...election of Adams, Daniel Webster had written to his brother: "General Jackson's manners are better than those of any of the candidates. He is grave, mild, and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly." And long after, when the President was to pass in review before those who were perhaps his most implacable... | |
| Oliver Dyer - 1892 - 404 pages
...was all suavity and grace. As Daniel Webster said, in one of his letters to his brother Ezekiel, " General Jackson's manners are more Presidential than...grave, mild and reserved. My wife is for him decidedly. . . The truth is, he is the people's candidate in a great part of the Southern and Western country."... | |
| Alma Holman Burton - 1898 - 264 pages
...looked for a time as though he would surely be elected. Daniel Webster wrote to his brother Ezekiel: "General Jackson's manners are more presidential than those of any of the candidates. He is grave and mild. My wife is for him decidedly." In the end, John Quincy Adams was elected. But the West was... | |
| Alma Holman Burton - 1898 - 264 pages
...looked for a time as though he would surely be elected. Daniel Webster wrote to his brother Ezekiel: "General Jackson's manners are more .presidential than those of any of the candidates. jHe is grave and mild. My wife is for him deIcidedly." In the end, John Quincy Adams was elected. But... | |
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