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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 7 7 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 6 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
willing to make liberal concessions to the Slave interest by the repeal of Personal Liberty laws and the rigid execution of the Fugitive Slave Act. The Republicans See page 33. adhered to their opposition to Slavery, yet favored conciliatory measures, as shadowed by one of their chief leaders; In a speech at Auburn, New York (his home), on the 20th of November, 1850, Mr. Seward counseled moderation and conciliation. He begged them to be patient and kind toward their erring brethren. Weare all. Fellow-citizens, Americans, brethren, he said. It is a trial of issues by the forces only of reason. while a few corrupt politicians, whose love of party and its honors and emoluments was far greater than love of country, openly defended the course of the traitors, and advocated secession as not only a constitutional right, but as expedient. But while there was a general desire to conciliate the madmen of the South, the great mass of the people in the Free-labor States, comprising t