William Seward to Charles Francis Adams, May 21, 1861; Charles Francis Adams to William Seward, May 21, 1861, Abraham Lincoln papers, Series 1: General Correspondence, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mal.1000900/?st=text&r=-0.152,0.132,1.156,1.214,0. Mr.
Source: William Seward, “The Destiny of America,” speech at the dedication of Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio, September 14, 1853 (Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1853), 3–; available at https://www.wdl.org/en/item/16955/. This
The unmistakable outbreaks of zeal which occur all around me show that you are earnest men—and such a man am I. Let us, therefore, at least for a time, pass
DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,TOTAM REMPUBLICAM VOS IN HAC CAUSA TENETIS. The resolution, submitted by Mr. BENTON, proposing to instruct the Committee on Territories to introduce a
…The British government has rightly conjectured, what it is now my duty to state, that Captain Wilkes, in conceiving and executing the proceeding in question, acted upon his own suggestions
This government is profoundly and agreeably impressed with the consideration which the Emperor has manifested towards the United States by inviting their concurrence in a proceeding having for its object
. . . Reviewing the whole course of the existing administration, I may safely claim that it shows that, even if the government had been left at liberty to conduct
SIR: Your confidential despatch of September 7, No. 342, has been received and carefully considered…. It is well understood that, through a long period, closing in 1860, the manifest strength
SIR: Every instruction which this government has given to its representatives abroad, since the recent change of administration took place, has expressed our profound anxiety lest the disloyal citizens who
