The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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... less popular on this side of the Atlantic than on the other , and are less popular there than heretofore . I must be excused from be- coming a convert to this monarchical creed , until Congress adopt and approve these documents . When ...
... less popular on this side of the Atlantic than on the other , and are less popular there than heretofore . I must be excused from be- coming a convert to this monarchical creed , until Congress adopt and approve these documents . When ...
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... less surely free if this bill were passed . The bill would raise a cloud upon the question . I prefer rather to leave New Mexico as it is . New Mexico has no representative here . Every phase of this compromise exhibits a dismemberment ...
... less surely free if this bill were passed . The bill would raise a cloud upon the question . I prefer rather to leave New Mexico as it is . New Mexico has no representative here . Every phase of this compromise exhibits a dismemberment ...
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... less than one hundred years ago , no Briton owned an acre in the valley of the St. Lawrence , or in the valley of the Mississippi , or between the Mississippi and the Pacific The career of Spain , on the other hand , was quick , bril ...
... less than one hundred years ago , no Briton owned an acre in the valley of the St. Lawrence , or in the valley of the Mississippi , or between the Mississippi and the Pacific The career of Spain , on the other hand , was quick , bril ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PAGE Xiij | ix |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF NEW YORK | 1 |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 51 |
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