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William Henry Seward (/ ˈ s uː ər d /; [1] May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.
Senator William H. Seward and Representative Thomas Corwin, Republicans and allies of President-elect Abraham Lincoln, introduced the Corwin Amendment, which was endorsed by the outgoing president, James Buchanan, as well as by Lincoln himself in his first inaugural address in 1861.
Seward was a part of the abolition movement, and along with his personal friend Harriet Tubman, worked towards ending slavery, thus making him a target of Booth and his co-conspirators.
William H. Seward, former State Senator from Auburn and nominee for governor in 1834 ... The issues of slavery and abolition were among the topics of the campaigns.
In early 1850, Clay proposed a package of eight bills that would settle most of the pressing issues before Congress. Clay's proposal was opposed by President Zachary Taylor, anti-slavery Whigs like William Seward, and pro-slavery Democrats like John C. Calhoun, and congressional debate over the territories continued. The debates over the bill ...
Senator Henry Clay made a lengthy speech in Congress, in February 1850, on the question of slavery in the District. [4] Seward, William Henry (1850). Speech of William H. Seward, on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, September 11, 1850. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard.
U.S. Senator William H. Seward says there is an "irrepressible conflict" between slavery and freedom. [212] Although solid evidence of their guilt is presented, the crew of the illegal slave ship The Wanderer is acquitted of engaging in the African slave trade by a Savannah, Georgia jury.
Northern Whigs, led by William Henry Seward of New York, (a former governor and senator), adamantly opposed the compromise because it did not apply the Wilmot Proviso (which banned slavery in any federal territory acquired from Mexico after the Mexican–American War) to the western territories.