The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - Legislators |
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Page iii
... compromises of 1850 . The present volume includes the succeeding and eventful period made memorable by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise , the struggle of slavery for Kansas , the assault upon a senator in the senate chamber by a ...
... compromises of 1850 . The present volume includes the succeeding and eventful period made memorable by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise , the struggle of slavery for Kansas , the assault upon a senator in the senate chamber by a ...
Page vii
... Compromise , 24 - Mr . Seward's Speeches , 27 - The New England Clergymen , 29 - The Pacific Railroad and the Homestead Law , 31 - The Fugitive Slave Act , 32 - Mr . Seward's Reëlection , 33— The Plymouth Oration , 36 - Aggressive Acts ...
... Compromise , 24 - Mr . Seward's Speeches , 27 - The New England Clergymen , 29 - The Pacific Railroad and the Homestead Law , 31 - The Fugitive Slave Act , 32 - Mr . Seward's Reëlection , 33— The Plymouth Oration , 36 - Aggressive Acts ...
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... 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 reach , their designs ...
... 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 reach , their designs ...
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... compromise was opposed by most of the represen- tatives of the free states , who were determined to make no further concessions than those involved in the position taken by President Taylor . The whigs of the slave states on the other ...
... compromise was opposed by most of the represen- tatives of the free states , who were determined to make no further concessions than those involved in the position taken by President Taylor . The whigs of the slave states on the other ...
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... compromise , leaving other subjects to distinct and independent legislation . No fair man , it would seem , could doubt the wisdom or justice of such a course . The partisans of the compromise contended that Utah and New Mexico should ...
... compromise , leaving other subjects to distinct and independent legislation . No fair man , it would seem , could doubt the wisdom or justice of such a course . The partisans of the compromise contended that Utah and New Mexico should ...
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