The Life of William H. Seward, Volume 2Harper and brothers, 1900 |
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... British government to its citizens . " He concluded with an eloquent tribute to America's mechanical genius , and expressed the belief that , considering our superior resources in soil and in the influence of freedom , our " enterprise ...
... British government to its citizens . " He concluded with an eloquent tribute to America's mechanical genius , and expressed the belief that , considering our superior resources in soil and in the influence of freedom , our " enterprise ...
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... government was on friendly terms with all nations . France and Great Britain were the powers whose good - will was ... British * Between Americans Minister a year or two before . 154 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
... government was on friendly terms with all nations . France and Great Britain were the powers whose good - will was ... British * Between Americans Minister a year or two before . 154 THE LIFE OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
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... Britain , and of Russia ? - As has been mentioned , a ... government of her Catholic Majesty , in a direct manner , that , if they [ the revolutionary acts ] shall be found to have received at any time the sanction of that government ...
... Britain , and of Russia ? - As has been mentioned , a ... government of her Catholic Majesty , in a direct manner , that , if they [ the revolutionary acts ] shall be found to have received at any time the sanction of that government ...
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... Britain also in opposing the annexation of Santo Domingo , and he made not the slightest allusion to the offences on her part that were regarded as so serious on April 1st . The British government , however , reluctantly accepted what 1 ...
... Britain also in opposing the annexation of Santo Domingo , and he made not the slightest allusion to the offences on her part that were regarded as so serious on April 1st . The British government , however , reluctantly accepted what 1 ...
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... British interference was not to rest on the ground of any favor . No moral question [ i.e. , slavery ] that might be supposed to lie at the basis of our do- mestic conflict was to be brought into debate before the British government ...
... British interference was not to rest on the ground of any favor . No moral question [ i.e. , slavery ] that might be supposed to lie at the basis of our do- mestic conflict was to be brought into debate before the British government ...
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Page 335 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 403 - Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States.
Page 315 - States; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and...
Page 330 - The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great, that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government — a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government.
Page 453 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 407 - States. 2. No receding by the Executive of the United States, on the slavery question, from the position assumed thereon in the late annual message to Congress, and in preceding documents. 3. No cessation of hostilities short of an end of the war and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the government.
Page 134 - I remark that if this must be done, I must do it. When a general line of policy is adopted, I apprehend there is no danger of its being changed without good reason, or continuing to be a subject of unnecessary debate; still, upon points arising in its progress I wish, and suppose I am entitled to have, the advice of all the cabinet.
Page 237 - British authorities, hut upon principles that constitute a large portion of the distinctive policy by which the United States have developed the resources of a continent, and thus becoming a considerable maritime power, have won the respect and confidence of many nations.
Page 314 - The territories will remain in all respects the same, whether the revolution shall succeed or shall fail. The condition of slavery in the several states will remain just the same whether it succeed or fail.
Page 238 - I have not forgotten that, if the safety of this Union required the detention of the captured persons, it would be the right and duty of this government to detain them. But the effectual check and waning proportions of the existing insurrection, as well as the comparative unimportance of the captured persons themselves, when dispassionately weighed, happily forbid me from resorting to that defence.