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What , then , are these questions arising out of slavery , thus interposed , but collateral questions ? ... I reply , as I said before , that even if California had come as a slave state , yet coming under the extraordinary cir- ...
What , then , are these questions arising out of slavery , thus interposed , but collateral questions ? ... I reply , as I said before , that even if California had come as a slave state , yet coming under the extraordinary cir- ...
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And if this were possible , the African slave trade is prohibited , and the domestic increase is not sufficient to supply the new slave states which are expected to maintain the equilibrium . The theory of a new political equilibrium ...
And if this were possible , the African slave trade is prohibited , and the domestic increase is not sufficient to supply the new slave states which are expected to maintain the equilibrium . The theory of a new political equilibrium ...
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He may not be able to lay hands upon the slave . He may not be able to enforce his rights against persons who either secrete or conceal . He may be restricted by local legislation , as to the modes of proof as to his ownership - as to ...
He may not be able to lay hands upon the slave . He may not be able to enforce his rights against persons who either secrete or conceal . He may be restricted by local legislation , as to the modes of proof as to his ownership - as to ...
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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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