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SEWARD 1 EDITED BY GEORGE E. BAKER " Nature and Laws would be in an ill case , if Slavery should find what to say for itself , and Liberty be mute ; and if tyrants should find men to plead for them , and they that can waste and vanquish ...
SEWARD 1 EDITED BY GEORGE E. BAKER " Nature and Laws would be in an ill case , if Slavery should find what to say for itself , and Liberty be mute ; and if tyrants should find men to plead for them , and they that can waste and vanquish ...
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Property , liberty and life have been committed to the integrity and ability of this young man of thirty - three , ' and he has never faltered in his trust , nor failed in an emergency , nor left unfulfilled an expectation .
Property , liberty and life have been committed to the integrity and ability of this young man of thirty - three , ' and he has never faltered in his trust , nor failed in an emergency , nor left unfulfilled an expectation .
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From that day to the present his life has been devoted to the principles of liberty . In his view , freedom is national and slavery sectional . With him the purpose of the Union is to establish the blessings of equality , justice and ...
From that day to the present his life has been devoted to the principles of liberty . In his view , freedom is national and slavery sectional . With him the purpose of the Union is to establish the blessings of equality , justice and ...
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With characteristic eloquence , he defended the cause of liberty in other lands -- asserting its claims on American sympathy , in the same line of argument which he afterwards reproduced ...
With characteristic eloquence , he defended the cause of liberty in other lands -- asserting its claims on American sympathy , in the same line of argument which he afterwards reproduced ...
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The nomination was unexpected , but he did not feel at liberty to decline it . Although the district had given a large Jackson majority the preceding year , and the anti - masonic candidate for governor , Francis , Granger , was ...
The nomination was unexpected , but he did not feel at liberty to decline it . Although the district had given a large Jackson majority the preceding year , and the anti - masonic candidate for governor , Francis , Granger , was ...
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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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