It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern,… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race… — William H. Seward Copy Share
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed… — William H. Seward Copy Share
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
