Seward: Governor, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, Volumen1Derby and Miller, 1891 - 832 páginas |
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Página 605 - Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, • But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die...
Página 201 - To . commemorate • That . train . of . events . which . led To . the . American . Revolution And . finally . secured Liberty . and . Independence To . the . United . States...
Página 806 - There is a busy war around me, to drive me from defending and securing a fair trial for the negro Freeman. People now rejoice that they did not lynch him; but they have all things prepared for an auto-da-fe, with the solemnities of a mock trial. No priest (except one Universalist), no Levite, no lawyer, no man, no woman, has visited him. He is deaf, deserted, ignorant, and his conduct is unexplainable on any principle of sanity. It is natural that he should turn to me to defend him. If he does, I...
Página 723 - So he is. I regret it as deeply as you do. I wish it were otherwise. But our conflict is not with one slaveholder, or with many, but with slavery. Henry Clay is our representative. You are opposed to the admission of Texas, and you admit and assert the duty of resisting it by the right of suffrage. "Will you resist it by voting for James G. Birney ? Your votes would be just as effectual if cast upon the waters of this placid lake.
Página 787 - Our population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the North, and to encounter oriental civilization on the shores of the Pacific.
Página 495 - Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. And with them we'll beat little Van, Van, Van is a used up man And with them we'll beat little Van.
Página 202 - Americans While from this eminence Scenes of luxuriant fertility of flourishing commerce and the abodes of social happiness meet your view, Forget not those •who by their exertions Have secured to you these blessings.
Página 580 - Your parliament had done us no wrong. You had ever been friendly to the rights of mankind; and we acknowledge, with pleasure and gratitude, that your nation has produced patriots, who have nobly distinguished themselves in the cause of humanity and America.
Página 290 - I would therefore call the special attention of Congress to the subject, and respectfully suggest the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penalties, the circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.
Página 375 - ... must have anticipated every suggestion I could make in defence of my views when they differ from your own. I dismiss the interrogatory, therefore, with the simple negative I feel myself constrained to give. Your third question is : " Are you in favor of a repeal of the law which now authorizes the importation of slaves into this state, and their detention as such during a period of nine months ?" The provisions of our statute on the subject of slavery are as follows, viz.