Perley S Reminiscences Of Sixty Years In The National Metropoli

Chapter 19

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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.