"Cruel war—war at home, and in the perspective distance a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Cæsar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansLawyers from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPoliticians from MassachusettsUnited States Ambassadors to China
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Letter from Bangor, Maine (January, 1860); reported in The Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (October, 1861), p. 313
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Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800 – January 2, 1879) was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. From 1874 until 1877, he was the U.S. Minister to Spain.
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