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As a suitable measure to alleviate the general pecuniary distress , Gov. Marcy recommended the issue of six millions of stock , to be sold on account of the state . A bill to this effect was introduced into the legislature , providing ...
As a suitable measure to alleviate the general pecuniary distress , Gov. Marcy recommended the issue of six millions of stock , to be sold on account of the state . A bill to this effect was introduced into the legislature , providing ...
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66 The President again repeats , that he begs his Cabinet to consider the proposed measure as his own , in the support of which he shall require no one to make a sacrifice of opinion or principle . Its responsibility has been assumed ...
66 The President again repeats , that he begs his Cabinet to consider the proposed measure as his own , in the support of which he shall require no one to make a sacrifice of opinion or principle . Its responsibility has been assumed ...
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I forbore from debate on offering the amendment for this reason ; and I forbore , also , because at an earlier stage of the session , I had discussed at large all the principles involved in the measure . I had yet another reason for ...
I forbore from debate on offering the amendment for this reason ; and I forbore , also , because at an earlier stage of the session , I had discussed at large all the principles involved in the measure . I had yet another reason for ...
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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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