Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gov. Seward” in chapter 25 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...be submitted to a direct popular vote, as the only means of averting civil war?
Yet Gov. Seymour demanded the submission of the Crittenden Compromise to such a vote, under circumstances wherein (as Gov. Seward had so forcibly stated) the argument of fear was the only one relied on, and Republicans were to be coerced into voting for that Compromise, or staying away from the polls; not that their conviction...
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