There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.


The Works of William H. Seward (ed. 1853)

William H. Seward Quotes

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have,...

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have,...

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have,...

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have,...