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Page 97
While I leave the interests of Texas in the care of her honorable and excellent senators , I must be allowed to think that their consent to this bill betrays a want of confidence in her claims or in the justice of Congress .
While I leave the interests of Texas in the care of her honorable and excellent senators , I must be allowed to think that their consent to this bill betrays a want of confidence in her claims or in the justice of Congress .
Page 98
Well , we are obliged to assume that Texas is to be paid more than her claim is worth , because she will not trust to a distinct and independent negotiation . The payment is a condition of the admission of California ; and thus we see ...
Well , we are obliged to assume that Texas is to be paid more than her claim is worth , because she will not trust to a distinct and independent negotiation . The payment is a condition of the admission of California ; and thus we see ...
Page 313
The reason assigned is , that it would be better to surrender twenty miles along the southern border of New Mexico to Texas , together with all the country lying between the Nueces and the lower Rio Grande , and thus to save what would ...
The reason assigned is , that it would be better to surrender twenty miles along the southern border of New Mexico to Texas , together with all the country lying between the Nueces and the lower Rio Grande , and thus to save what would ...
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Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PAGE Xiij | ix |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 51 |
DEBATES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 284 |
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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, 1887 |
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