Essays on William Seward

Movies have become better sources of information today. Many learning institutions teach history with movies being the aid materials. Movies provide a clear understanding of a particular concept being derived. They provide real historical events of a given society. Movies capture attention. They are a symbolic representation of the real events in the society. A movie review provides brief-detailed information about a film. The review then illustrates the relevance of that particular movie. This work focuses on a movie about the U.S history. The movie is titled “Lincoln.” The historical events illustrated in this movie are also outlined. There ...

On March 4, 1858, Senator James Hammond of South Carolina addressed the United States Senate on an issue concerning the admission of Kansas as a new state of the Union. His speech was in response to a speech given the day before by Senator William Seward of the state of New York. This is a quick summary of that speech along with an analysis of how it is relevant in relation to the upcoming Civil War. The bulk of the speech by Senator Hammond was devoted to the size and relative strength of the Southern American states, also known ...

ABSTRACT

The debate over Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850 was a forum for three fundamental positions regarding the spread of slavery. John C. Calhoun supported slavery in the guise of the South’s Constitutional rights; Daniel Webster accorded with Clay’s accommodating position, arguing that slavery should be allowed to die a natural death; while William Seward put forth the strongest argument, adopting an uncompromising position against the extension of the slave owners’ rights based on Constitutional/legal and spiritual grounds.

The speeches by William Seward, Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun represent three foundational positions on slavery that were prevalent in ...