Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2

CHAPTER XIX.

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HARRISON'S ONE MONTH OF POWER. Civil Service Reform--Differences of Opinion--Difficulty between Clay and King--Washington Correspondents--Verbatim Reports of Debates--A Popular British Minister--Other Foreign Diplomats-- Quarrelsome Carolinians--Daniel Webster's Housekeeping--Illness of President Harrison--Death--Funeral--The Last Honors.