The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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Page xxv
... 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 embraced . And on the other hand , if we ...
... 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 embraced . And on the other hand , if we ...
Page xxxii
... legislation to corporate monopolies for banking , canals , rail- roads , and similar purposes . His efforts were not ... legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their ...
... legislation to corporate monopolies for banking , canals , rail- roads , and similar purposes . His efforts were not ... legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their ...
Page xxxiii
... 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 forth ...
... 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 forth ...
Page xxxiv
... 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 argument , pointed and brilliant in expression , and adorned with the appropriate ...
... 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 argument , pointed and brilliant in expression , and adorned with the appropriate ...
Page xlix
... 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 . In its place , he recommended the division ...
... 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 . In its place , he recommended the division ...
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