The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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Page 18
... slavery , at the very moment when the latter was known to have adopted a free constitution and to have chosen representatives to ask an admission into the Union . On this question , Mr. Seward maintained that New Mexico should be ...
... slavery , at the very moment when the latter was known to have adopted a free constitution and to have chosen representatives to ask an admission into the Union . On this question , Mr. Seward maintained that New Mexico should be ...
Page 19
... slavery was too great a price to pay even for the attainment of peace ; that a peace purchased on such terms would be only a hollow truce ; that it would be disturbed by new and deeper agitations ; that freedom and slavery were ...
... slavery was too great a price to pay even for the attainment of peace ; that a peace purchased on such terms would be only a hollow truce ; that it would be disturbed by new and deeper agitations ; that freedom and slavery were ...
Page 37
... slaves are property under the constitution . Their ideas were foreshadowed by the counsel for Virginia , ' who reiterated in the court room the same plea for the justice and beneficence of African slavery which he had a month before ...
... slaves are property under the constitution . Their ideas were foreshadowed by the counsel for Virginia , ' who reiterated in the court room the same plea for the justice and beneficence of African slavery which he had a month before ...
Page 51
... slavery sheriffs , was grossly unjust , most of the free state voters being unenumerated , and some counties entirely omitted . The apportionment and all the arrangments for the election of dele- gates were made , so as to perfectly ...
... slavery sheriffs , was grossly unjust , most of the free state voters being unenumerated , and some counties entirely omitted . The apportionment and all the arrangments for the election of dele- gates were made , so as to perfectly ...
Page 83
... slavery people , that I , younger then , of course , than I am now , made a pilgrimage , which was not molested on my way , to the Sage of Quincy , there to learn from him what became a citizen of the United States , in view of the ...
... slavery people , that I , younger then , of course , than I am now , made a pilgrimage , which was not molested on my way , to the Sage of Quincy , there to learn from him what became a citizen of the United States , in view of the ...
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