The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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... Texas was view- ed with alarm by the friends of liberty at the North . It renewed the discussion of slavery , which had not entered into political movements since the Missouri Compromise in 1820. A portion of the citizens of New York ...
... Texas was view- ed with alarm by the friends of liberty at the North . It renewed the discussion of slavery , which had not entered into political movements since the Missouri Compromise in 1820. A portion of the citizens of New York ...
Page lxii
... Texas , were saved from per- petual bondage . Gov. Seward also procured the passage of an act by the legis- lature , allowing the benefit of a jury trial to persons claimed as fugitive slaves . He defended this right with his usual ...
... Texas , were saved from per- petual bondage . Gov. Seward also procured the passage of an act by the legis- lature , allowing the benefit of a jury trial to persons claimed as fugitive slaves . He defended this right with his usual ...
Page lxvii
... Texas , he argued , had become inevitable . Under the excitement pro- duced by its discussion , the anti - slavery interest had grown up in the state , from one thousand in 1838 , to two thousand five hundred in 1840 , in opposition to ...
... Texas , he argued , had become inevitable . Under the excitement pro- duced by its discussion , the anti - slavery interest had grown up in the state , from one thousand in 1838 , to two thousand five hundred in 1840 , in opposition to ...
Page lxxxii
... Texas to the last , and condemned the Mexican war , which he had predicted as its consequence . Still , during the continuance of the war , he urgently maintained the duty of supporting the govern- ment by liberal appropriations of men ...
... Texas to the last , and condemned the Mexican war , which he had predicted as its consequence . Still , during the continuance of the war , he urgently maintained the duty of supporting the govern- ment by liberal appropriations of men ...
Page lxxxix
... Texas and her creditors , " which closes the list of his senatorial efforts at the time we are now writing . Both of these speeches are marked by the admirable union of statistics , general reasoning , and lofty sentiment , of which the ...
... Texas and her creditors , " which closes the list of his senatorial efforts at the time we are now writing . Both of these speeches are marked by the admirable union of statistics , general reasoning , and lofty sentiment , of which the ...
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