WORKS

OF

WILLIAM H. SEWARD

EDITED BY

GEORGE E. BAKER

"Fature and Laws would be in an ill case, if Slavery should find what to say for itself, and Liberty be mute: and if tyrants should find men to plead for them, and they that can waste and vanquish tyrants, should not be able to find advocates." MILTON.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858,

By J. S. REDFIELD,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the

Southern District of New York.

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