. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. into hysterics. Some of these men had sat in theYoung Mens Convention of 1S2S fav-orable to John Quincy Adams, of whichyoung Seward was president. Somehad sustained him in the anti-Masonicracket and elected him to the StateSenate in 18-30. Many had supportedhim, hut unsuccessfully, as Whig can-didate for Governor of New York in1834, being then but 32 years of years later they elected him on thesame ticket. They found in him afamous Governor. One who sustainedinternal improvements and made anissue on the slave oligarchy by refusingt
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe. into hysterics. Some of these men had sat in theYoung Mens Convention of 1S2S fav-orable to John Quincy Adams, of whichyoung Seward was president. Somehad sustained him in the anti-Masonicracket and elected him to the StateSenate in 18-30. Many had supportedhim, hut unsuccessfully, as Whig can-didate for Governor of New York in1834, being then but 32 years of years later they elected him on thesame ticket. They found in him afamous Governor. One who sustainedinternal improvements and made anissue on the slave oligarchy by refusingthe request of the Governor of Virginiato return three negro seamen chargedwith aiding slaves to escape. They re-elected him Governor andwould have done so again but for hisrefusal to run in IS [2. They were with him in enthusiasticsupport of Clay. They elevated him to the Senate ofthe United States in 1849 and re-elected him in 185.). He was one ofthe founders of the Republican party. In the National Convention of 1860, THE KEDI AXD ALLIED Signing The Treaty ok Cession of Russian America, Alaska, to the United States March 30, 1^67 A copy of the Leutze painting of this great event. On the left shows Vladimir Bodisco, Secretaryof the Russian Legation, and then in order to the right William H. Seward, Secretary of State of theUnited States of America, seated; William Hunter, Second Assistant Secretary of State ; U. S. Chew,Chief Clerk, Department of State ; His Excellency, Kdward Stoeckel, Russian Plenipotentiary, with hishand pointing to the globe; Charles Sumner, ot Massachusetts, Senator of the United States; l-redeiick , First Assistant Secretary of State. The surroundings represent the office of the Secretary of Statein the temporary rented quarters in the Childrens OrphansAsylum on 14th street near Boundary, N. W.,during the erection of the present massive structure. but for the Lincoln-Douglas contro-versy in Illinois the fetching log-cabin craze and Hor
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