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" Representatives, had sauntered into the hall, and, were, with their attendants, sacrificing some impatient moments to the inscrutable mysteries of pleading. On the opposite side was a group of Indians, who are here on a visit to the President... "
Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States ... - Page 54
by Charles Jared Ingersoll - 1810 - 165 pages
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The Supreme Court Chamber, 1810-1860

Old Supreme Court Chamber (United States Capitol, Washing, D.C.) - 1981 - 20 pages
...Representatives, has sauntered into the hall, and were, with their attendants sacrificing some impatient moment to the inscrutable mysteries of pleading. On the opposite...Indians, who are here on a visit to the President in their native costume, their straight black hair hanging in plaits down their tawny shoulders, with...
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Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time

Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 pages
...arguments were particularly exciting or an important case was under review. Indians also visited, dressed "in their native costume, their straight black hair...plaits down their tawny shoulders, with mockassins [sic] on their feet, rings in their ears and noses, and large plates of silver on their arms and breasts."2...
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John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...attended, "one side of the fine forensic colonnade was occupied by a party of ladies, who were . . . sacrificing some impatient moments to the inscrutable...Indians, who are here on a visit to the President, in their native costume, their straight black hair hanging in plaits down their tawny shoulders, with...
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The Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty

Jill Norgren - Law - 2004 - 224 pages
...I went into the Court of Justice yesterday, one side . . . was occupied by a party of ladies. . . . On the opposite side was a group of Indians, who are here on a visit to the President. . . ."6 Indeed, in the early nineteenth century great orators presenting a case before the Supreme...
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