But at least one senator seemed to make light of it ... When Sumner presented a draft of his speech to a few friends, Sen. William H. Seward of New York begged him to temper the message out ...

William H. SewardGetty Images About 10 o’clock a man rang the bell, and the call having been answered by a colored servant, he said he had come Dr. Verdi, Secretary Seward’s family Physician ...

We begin with one of the most overlooked figures in American history: William Seward ... the enslaved laborer escape. Seward refused and the Virginia General Assembly voted to stop trading with New ...

Walker, who had served as a senator from Mississippi from 1835 ... Lincoln’s and Andrew Johnson’s secretary of state, William H. Seward. That’s the same Seward best remembered for his ...

RUBENSTEIN: And the Senate then is selected by the state ... INSKEEP: When you have lots of qualifications as Lincoln's rival William H. Seward did, it sometimes gets in your way, and we can ...

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in April the Senate ratified the treaty-by two votes. Once again, the indigenous people were not given a voice in the matter. Secretary of State William H. Seward (Library of Congress) There was ...

As a US senator, he was the only Southern senator who refused ... negotiated by US Secretary of State William H Seward. The acquisition was initially ridiculed as “Seward’s Folly” but later proved to ...

William H. Seward of New York had the early lead ... From 1874 to 1894, unified control of the presidency, the House and the Senate was achieved for only six years in three separate two-year ...