The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 5Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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Page 18
... peace for many years I mean the con- sent to peaceful arbitration of the grievance growing out of the Alabama difficulties . He thus gave a signal instance both of a forethought and a benevolence in diplomacy that have seldom been ...
... peace for many years I mean the con- sent to peaceful arbitration of the grievance growing out of the Alabama difficulties . He thus gave a signal instance both of a forethought and a benevolence in diplomacy that have seldom been ...
Page 22
... peace , unity and harmony , with a great enlargement of civil liberty ; and whereas , our Heavenly Father has also , during the year , graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war , pesti- lence and famine , while our ...
... peace , unity and harmony , with a great enlargement of civil liberty ; and whereas , our Heavenly Father has also , during the year , graciously averted from us the calamities of foreign war , pesti- lence and famine , while our ...
Page 26
... peace seemed only to increase the arduous duties of the Department of State . An increasing number and a greater variety of questions pressed for consideration . The Paris Exposition of 1867 was , to our countrymen especially , a great ...
... peace seemed only to increase the arduous duties of the Department of State . An increasing number and a greater variety of questions pressed for consideration . The Paris Exposition of 1867 was , to our countrymen especially , a great ...
Page 51
... peaceful separation from the insurrectionary States . A very brief sojourn among us , with an observation of our ... peace . April 3 , 1862. - The late achievement of the Merrimack in Hampton Roads at first perplexed and alarmed all ...
... peaceful separation from the insurrectionary States . A very brief sojourn among us , with an observation of our ... peace . April 3 , 1862. - The late achievement of the Merrimack in Hampton Roads at first perplexed and alarmed all ...
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... peace , however ob- tained and at whatever cost , preferable to a prosecution of the war at all ; and who , at every stage of the controversy , see only the diffi- culties , embarrassments , and disappointments of the nation , and take ...
... peace , however ob- tained and at whatever cost , preferable to a prosecution of the war at all ; and who , at every stage of the controversy , see only the diffi- culties , embarrassments , and disappointments of the nation , and take ...
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