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| | Franklin Pierce |
 | | At the same session he made a strong speech against the removal of government officials for their political opinions, in violation of the pledges to the contrary which the Whig leaders had given to the country in the canvass of 1840. |
 | | During the five years that he remained in the senate it numbered among its members Benton, Buchanan, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Woodbury, and Silas Wright, an array of veteran statesmen and intellectual giants who had long been party leaders, and who occupied the whole field of debate. |
 | | Proposed routes for a railroad to the Pacific were explored, and voluminous reports thereon published under the direction of the war department. |
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