The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - Legislators |
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... True Basis of American Independence ; The Physical , Moral and Intellectual Development of the American People ; and The Pilgrims and Liberty . A BIOGRAPHY OF DE WITT CLINTON , occupies the next twenty pages of the volume . This is an ...
... True Basis of American Independence ; The Physical , Moral and Intellectual Development of the American People ; and The Pilgrims and Liberty . A BIOGRAPHY OF DE WITT CLINTON , occupies the next twenty pages of the volume . This is an ...
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... true executive officer of a state like New York , are equal to those several qualities demanded of any ruler in this country or in Europe . When we consider the great metropolis , itself containing a nation , the numerous growing towns ...
... true executive officer of a state like New York , are equal to those several qualities demanded of any ruler in this country or in Europe . When we consider the great metropolis , itself containing a nation , the numerous growing towns ...
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... true intent and significance of the compromise measures of 1850. For his resistance to those measures , Mr. Seward had been vehemently denounced . But at the very commencement of the Nebraska strug- gle , the friends of freedom at the ...
... true intent and significance of the compromise measures of 1850. For his resistance to those measures , Mr. Seward had been vehemently denounced . But at the very commencement of the Nebraska strug- gle , the friends of freedom at the ...
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... true discoverer , brought the great work to a felicitous consummation . " General rejoicing spread over the country upon the announce- ment that the cable was laid and that messages between the two worlds had actually been transmitted ...
... true discoverer , brought the great work to a felicitous consummation . " General rejoicing spread over the country upon the announce- ment that the cable was laid and that messages between the two worlds had actually been transmitted ...
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... true , and unanimously acted upon it when they framed the constitution of the United States . They regarded the existence of the servile system in so many of the states with sorrow and shame , which they openly confessed , and they ...
... true , and unanimously acted upon it when they framed the constitution of the United States . They regarded the existence of the servile system in so many of the states with sorrow and shame , which they openly confessed , and they ...
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