“To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.Quote by William H SewardTopics: Quotes about William H SewardShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free,...#William H Seward
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states...#William H Seward
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can...#William H Seward
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