Excerpt from Speech of William H. Seward, for the Immediate Admission of Kansas Into the Union: Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856 In behalf of New York, for whom it is my right and duty to speak, I defy the Presidential accu ser. Mark her tranquil magnanimity, which be comes a State for whose delivery from tyranny Schuyler devised and labored, -who received her political Constitution from Hamilton, her intel lectual and physical development from Clinton, and her lessons in humanity from Jay. As she waves her wand over the continent, tra'de forsakes the broad natural channels which conveyed it be fore to the Delaware and Chesapeake bays and to the Gulfs of St. Lawrence and Mexico, and obedient to her command pours itself through her artificial channels into her own once obscure seaport. She stretches her wand again towards the ocean, and the commerce of all the continents concentrates itself at her feet; and with it, strong and full floods of immigration ride in, contribu ting labor, capital, art, valor, and enterprise, to perfect and embellish our ever-widening empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.