THE

WORKS

OF

WILLIAM H. SEWARD

EDITED BY

GEORGE E. BAKER

"Nature and Laws would be in an ill case, if Slavery should find what to say for itself, and Liberty
be mute and if tyrants should find men to plead for them, and they that can waste and vanquish
tyrants, should not be able to find advocates."

MILTON.

IN FIVE VOLUMES

VOL. III.

NEW EDITION

BOSTON

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1884

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,

By J. S. REDFIELD,

n the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the

Southern District of New York.