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Page xxv
No free state claims to extend its legislation into a slave state . None claims that Congress shall usurp power to abolish slavery in the slave states . None claims that any violent , unconstitutional or unlawful measure shall be ...
No free state claims to extend its legislation into a slave state . None claims that Congress shall usurp power to abolish slavery in the slave states . None claims that any violent , unconstitutional or unlawful measure shall be ...
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The present system of opening every branch of business to voluntary association , without legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their soundness and utility .
The present system of opening every branch of business to voluntary association , without legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their soundness and utility .
Page xxxiii
At the legislative session for this year , Mr. Seward took a still more prominent share in the proceedings of the Senate . The nomination of Mr. Tallmadge , then a member of the Senate , to the office of United States Senator , called ...
At the legislative session for this year , Mr. Seward took a still more prominent share in the proceedings of the Senate . The nomination of Mr. Tallmadge , then a member of the Senate , to the office of United States Senator , called ...
Page xxxiv
This speech , which was , on the whole , the most powerful effort of his intellect and legislative experience during his career in the New York Senate , occupied a part of two days in the delivery . It was a forcible and conclusive in ...
This speech , which was , on the whole , the most powerful effort of his intellect and legislative experience during his career in the New York Senate , occupied a part of two days in the delivery . It was a forcible and conclusive in ...
Page xlix
He was opposed to all partial , invidious legislation . Nor could he be convinced of the practicability of the measure , in the existing state of feeling . He accordingly dissuaded his friends from urging the passage of such an act .
He was opposed to all partial , invidious legislation . Nor could he be convinced of the practicability of the measure , in the existing state of feeling . He accordingly dissuaded his friends from urging the passage of such an act .
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| Title | The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1 The Works of William H. Seward, William Henry Seward |
| Author | William Henry Seward |
| Editor | George E. Baker |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2009 |
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