The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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... answer to the questions that had been propounded . The whigs were thought to be placed in an inconvenient dilemma . Mr. Seward's answert was at once frank and sagacious . While he ex- pressed without reserve his devotion to human ...
... answer to the questions that had been propounded . The whigs were thought to be placed in an inconvenient dilemma . Mr. Seward's answert was at once frank and sagacious . While he ex- pressed without reserve his devotion to human ...
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... answered by Hon . Samuel B. Ruggles , chairman of the committee of ways and means in the assembly , who showed that the increase of tolls on the canals would sustain a loan of thirty millions of dollars , reimbursing it in twenty years ...
... answered by Hon . Samuel B. Ruggles , chairman of the committee of ways and means in the assembly , who showed that the increase of tolls on the canals would sustain a loan of thirty millions of dollars , reimbursing it in twenty years ...
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... answered that a man too insane to be executed , was too insane to be imprisoned for life , and discharged the offender at once . No woman , not abandoned to vice and crime , was suffered to endure the full punishment prescribed by the ...
... answered that a man too insane to be executed , was too insane to be imprisoned for life , and discharged the offender at once . No woman , not abandoned to vice and crime , was suffered to endure the full punishment prescribed by the ...
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... answered that notwith- standing the precedent , he did not think it right to pervert a * See Vol . II . p . 646 . See Vol . II . p . 618 . power entrusted to him for purposes of humanity , to INTERESTING PARDON CASES . lix.
... answered that notwith- standing the precedent , he did not think it right to pervert a * See Vol . II . p . 646 . See Vol . II . p . 618 . power entrusted to him for purposes of humanity , to INTERESTING PARDON CASES . lix.
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... answered the prisoner . 66 Well they are those gentlemen down there , " continued Judge Whiting , pointing to the jurors in their seats " and they say you are guilty . Do you understand ? " " No ! " 66 They say you killed Van Nest . Do ...
... answered the prisoner . 66 Well they are those gentlemen down there , " continued Judge Whiting , pointing to the jurors in their seats " and they say you are guilty . Do you understand ? " " No ! " 66 They say you killed Van Nest . Do ...
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