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"BLIGHT OF SLAVERY" SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Autograph Letter Signed, to Frederich Kapp, praising his German-language work on slavery and hopeful that the
"BLIGHT OF SLAVERY" SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Autograph Letter Signed, to Frederich Kapp, praising his German-language work on slavery and hopeful that the foreign immigrants settling in the West will be affected by it. 3 pages, folded 8vo sheet. Washington, 7 December 1852
- Notes: "... You have indeed done a needful and just work for our Country and for Humanity by presenting in the German language a statement clear calm and truthful of the case of slavery as it exists in the United States. The immigrants from Europe who read the German language are becoming the chief colonists of the new regions of the United States which are becoming speedily settled and are soon to become the seat of great states. I should quite despond of the great effort to save those vast regions from the blight of slavery if I had not hope that those who are to inhabit them and form their institutions would be astute enough to understand their own true interests which are so exactly identical with those of the Country and of mankind..."
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