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Summary
Verse.; Political campaign.; Imprint 1.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.
Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 53, Folder 29.
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1825
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Date
01/01/1825
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