The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 - New York (State) |
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Page liv
... executive office on the first of January , 1839. The state debt was then eleven millions of dollars ; but there were four millions of dollars in the treasury available for the public works , reducing the actual debt to about seven ...
... executive office on the first of January , 1839. The state debt was then eleven millions of dollars ; but there were four millions of dollars in the treasury available for the public works , reducing the actual debt to about seven ...
Page lvi
... executive office , railroads were a recent invention . They had been adopted only to a comparatively small extent in any part of the United States . They still met with a strenuous opposition from many of the leading New York ...
... executive office , railroads were a recent invention . They had been adopted only to a comparatively small extent in any part of the United States . They still met with a strenuous opposition from many of the leading New York ...
Page lx
... executive chair . Af- terward the law became obsolete , for want of public opinion to sustain it . Duelling was still practiced in the state of New York , notwithstanding this law was on the pages of the statute - book , and that too by ...
... executive chair . Af- terward the law became obsolete , for want of public opinion to sustain it . Duelling was still practiced in the state of New York , notwithstanding this law was on the pages of the statute - book , and that too by ...
Page lxi
... executive assent . It must be left to impartial public opinion , free from the bias of temporary excitement , to decide between * See Vol II . p 374 . + See Vol . II . p . 426 . him and the legislature , on their refusal to receive ...
... executive assent . It must be left to impartial public opinion , free from the bias of temporary excitement , to decide between * See Vol II . p 374 . + See Vol . II . p . 426 . him and the legislature , on their refusal to receive ...
Page lxvi
... executive chair , although no one , in fact , ever pos- sessed a stronger hold on the confidence of a great political party than he did at that moment . Besides , Gov. Seward foresaw more clearly than many of his friends , the progress ...
... executive chair , although no one , in fact , ever pos- sessed a stronger hold on the confidence of a great political party than he did at that moment . Besides , Gov. Seward foresaw more clearly than many of his friends , the progress ...
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