[Solar-OpenOffice] {Spam?} Alition of Democrats and Free-Soilers. He was as true a

Sat Mar 27 09:10:35 CET 2010

Ith but five dollars in his possession, which
he had earned at haying. In 1850, after seven consecutive terms as
Governor, he was defeated by a coalition of Democrats and
Free-Soilers. He was as true a friend of a pure civil service as any
man of the present day. Like a well-known English writer on political
economy, and for similar reasons, he refused to furnish money for his
own election expenses, however legitimate; thus,
although unwillingly, placing the burden upon the shoulders of other
members of his party, a course which gave equal satisfaction in both
countries. He was distinguished
for the consistency of his life with his religious and temperance
principles. Once, it is said, while exhorting

a friend who had already entered the downward
path of immoderate drinking, Mr. Briggs was induced to
promise
that so long as the other would abst
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