Seward at Washington, as Senator and Secretary of State : a memoir of his life, with selections from his letters, 1861-1872Derby and Miller, 1891 - 832 pages |
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... Congress , in the year eighteen hundred and ninety , BY FREDERICK W. SEWARD , In the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . WEED , PARSONS AND COMPANY , PRINTERS , ELECTROTYPERS AND BINDERS , ALBANY ...
... Congress , in the year eighteen hundred and ninety , BY FREDERICK W. SEWARD , In the office of the Librarian of Congress , at Washington . ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . WEED , PARSONS AND COMPANY , PRINTERS , ELECTROTYPERS AND BINDERS , ALBANY ...
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... Congress and the Finances . Gradual Extension of the Union Area . Effects of the War on Slavery . European Schemes and Intrigues . Proposed Breaking of the Blockade . Recognition Contemplated by France . French Objections Met and ...
... Congress and the Finances . Gradual Extension of the Union Area . Effects of the War on Slavery . European Schemes and Intrigues . Proposed Breaking of the Blockade . Recognition Contemplated by France . French Objections Met and ...
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... Congress and the Finances . The National Debt . The Legal Tender Notes . Discussing a Proclamation of Emancipation . Departure of the French Princes . CHAPTER XV . 1862 . 112 Recruits and Reinforcements . Removal of the " Army of the ...
... Congress and the Finances . The National Debt . The Legal Tender Notes . Discussing a Proclamation of Emancipation . Departure of the French Princes . CHAPTER XV . 1862 . 112 Recruits and Reinforcements . Removal of the " Army of the ...
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... Congress Again . The Great Problem . Emancipation Gradual , and Compensated , or How ? The Fredericksburg Battle and Defeat . A Senatorial Caucus . Preston King . Demand for Seward's Removal . His Resignation . Lincoln with Committee ...
... Congress Again . The Great Problem . Emancipation Gradual , and Compensated , or How ? The Fredericksburg Battle and Defeat . A Senatorial Caucus . Preston King . Demand for Seward's Removal . His Resignation . Lincoln with Committee ...
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... Congress . Veto of the " Freedmen's Bureau Bill . ” " The Clearing Up Shower . " Speech at the Cooper Institute . A Difference of Opinion between Pilots . The Vessel Safe either Way . " The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve . " The ...
... Congress . Veto of the " Freedmen's Bureau Bill . ” " The Clearing Up Shower . " Speech at the Cooper Institute . A Difference of Opinion between Pilots . The Vessel Safe either Way . " The Nervous Man and the Man of Nerve . " The ...
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Page 117 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 167 - Must I shoot a simpleminded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert?
Page 167 - I think the time not unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many.
Page 133 - I had prepared on this subject, which, on account of objections made by some of you, was not issued. Ever since then my mind has been much occupied with this subject, and I have thought, all along, that the time for acting on it might probably come.
Page 133 - When the rebel army was at Frederick, I determined, as soon as it should be driven out of Maryland, to issue a proclamation of emancipation, such as I thought most likely to be useful. I said nothing to any one, but I made the promise to myself and (hesitating a little) to my Maker. The rebel army is now driven out, and I am going to fulfill that promise.
Page 370 - States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever.
Page 516 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Page 25 - I prefer to express my satisfaction that, by the adjustment of the present case upon principles confessedly American and yet as I trust mutually satisfactory to both of the nations concerned, a question is finally and rightly settled between them which, heretofore exhausting not only all forms of peaceful discussion but also the arbitrament of war itself for more than half a century, alienated the two countries from each other and perplexed with fears and apprehensions all other nations.
Page 180 - If the law of- Great Britain must be left without amendment, and be construed by the government in conformity with the rulings of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, then there will be left for the United States no alternative but to protect themselves and their commerce against armed cruisers proceeding from British ports, as against the naval forces of a public enemy...
Page 282 - General Logan, and the head of the Fifteenth Corps. When I reached the Treasury building and looked back, the sight was simply magnificent. The column was compact, and the glittering muskets looked like a solid mass of steel, moving with the regularity of a pendulum.