The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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... Debate with Senator Mason , January 30 , 1861 , 670 . APPENDIX , .. 679 The Chicago Platform - Speeches at the Chicago Convention , Messrs . EVARTS , ANDREW , SCHURZ , BLAIR , BROWNING , BALDWIN , & c . - Reception Speeches of Gov ...
... Debate with Senator Mason , January 30 , 1861 , 670 . APPENDIX , .. 679 The Chicago Platform - Speeches at the Chicago Convention , Messrs . EVARTS , ANDREW , SCHURZ , BLAIR , BROWNING , BALDWIN , & c . - Reception Speeches of Gov ...
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... strengthen mental conflict . How rarely indeed do districts other than rural , furnish us with statesmen ! 1 Continued from Vol . I. We see him entering public life just as the debates MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL,
... strengthen mental conflict . How rarely indeed do districts other than rural , furnish us with statesmen ! 1 Continued from Vol . I. We see him entering public life just as the debates MEMOIR, BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL,
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... debates on the Missouri Compromise had closed - at the age of twenty - three writing a convention address with such prophetic sentences as these : " When , in Republican states , men attempt to entrench themselves beyond the popular ...
... debates on the Missouri Compromise had closed - at the age of twenty - three writing a convention address with such prophetic sentences as these : " When , in Republican states , men attempt to entrench themselves beyond the popular ...
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... debate . The slaveholding party indulged in such violent and inflammatory language as to threaten the derangement of publie business and even the disorganization of congress . This party was sustained by the Nashville convention - a ...
... debate . The slaveholding party indulged in such violent and inflammatory language as to threaten the derangement of publie business and even the disorganization of congress . This party was sustained by the Nashville convention - a ...
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... debates ; although he declined to engage in any defense or explanation of his course amid the excite- ment of popular ... debate . Ayes , 109 ; nays , 75 . The bill abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia passed the senate ...
... debates ; although he declined to engage in any defense or explanation of his course amid the excite- ment of popular ... debate . Ayes , 109 ; nays , 75 . The bill abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia passed the senate ...
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