It was also agreed that some reorganization of the cabinet would be helpful to draw more Democratic support ; though changes were made, Seward and Stanton, who had the most tenuous relationship with the party, were not affected.

Later, Seward quoted Freeman ’ s brother-in-law, praising his eloquence: " They have made William Freeman what he is, a brute beast ; they don ’ t make anything else of any of our people but brute beasts ; but when we violate their laws, then they want to punish us as if we were men.

Around the same time, his friend Horace Greeley turned against him, opposing Seward on the grounds that his radical reputation made him unelectable.

When Lincoln won the nomination, Seward loyally supported him and made a long speaking tour of the West in the autumn of 1860.

Seward made many changes to the home, adding an addition in the late 1840s and another one in 1866.

The purchase, made at the initiative of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, gained of new territory.

Under the leadership of Thurlow Weed, an anti-Masonic and anti-Andrew Jackson ( Jackson was a Mason ) movement grew to become the political party and made the ballot for the presidency in 1828, while gaining the support of such notable politicians as William H. Seward.

He also played Secretary of State William Seward in the 1988 made for TV movie, " Gore Vidal's Lincoln.

His contributions to the Brotherhood's magazine The Germ were made under the pseudonyms Laura Savage and John Seward.

On January 31, 1968 the resolution made by the Seward City Council arrives.

Cooler heads hoped to avoid bloodshed and gain possession by negotiation ; they made much of the conciliatory words of William H. Seward, already selected to be Secretary of State in the incoming administration.

Seward ’ s instructions to Adams included the suggestion that it be made clear to Britain that a nation with widely scattered possessions, as well as a homeland that included Scotland and Ireland, should be very wary of “ set a dangerous precedent .”

The Times published its first report from the United States on December 4, and its correspondent, W. H. Russell, wrote of American reactions, “ There is so much violence of spirit among the lower orders of the people and they are … so saturated with pride and vanity that any honorable concession … would prove fatal to its authors .” Times editor John T. Delane, however, took a moderate stance and warned the people not to “ regard the act in the worst light ” and to question whether it made sense that the United States, despite British misgivings about Seward that went back to the earliest days of the Lincoln administration, would “ force a quarrel upon the Powers of Europe .”

According to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's private secretaries and a later biographer of the Civil War president, " Failing in this direct application, they made further efforts through Mr. Justice Campbell of the Supreme Court ... who came to Seward in the guise of a loyal official, though his correspondence with Jefferson Davis soon revealed a treasonable intent.

In an angry letter to Seward, Pierce denied that he knew anything about the KGC, and demanded that his letter be made public.

During the summer of 1869 he climbed Mount Marcy, and in 1870 made the first recorded ascent of Seward Mountain.

* 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

The validity of a ratification that a state first grants and then later purports to rescind, and of the subsequent ratification of an amendment which that state previously rejected and then later assented to, was addressed by Congress in 1868 when Secretary of State William H. Seward issued a proclamation that what we know today as the Fourteenth Amendment was properly ratified and a part of the Constitution.

The Republican Party nominated John C. Frémont of California as its first presidential candidate ; Senator William H. Seward sought, but failed to receive the Republican nomination.

Callow, rich Ensign Willis Seward " Willie " Keith ( Robert Francis ) reports for duty aboard the Caine, his first assignment.

During that hiatus, his lesser-known rival Abraham Lincoln worked diligently to line up support in case Seward failed to win on the first ballot.

Larsen passed her certification exam in 1923 and spent her first year working at the Seward Park Branch on the Lower East Side, where she had strong support from her white supervisor Alice Keats O ' Connor, as she had from Rose.

The first township meeting was held on October 30, 1872, and the name Seward Township was selected at this first meeting in honor of U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward who died just twenty days earlier on October 10, 1872.

In 1874, the Midland Pacific Railroad built the first railway in Seward County, laying tracks from Lincoln to Seward.

The first settlement occurred around 1754 near Seward village.

The cylinder of serum was sent by train from the southern port of Seward to Nenana, where it was passed just before midnight on January 27 to the first of twenty mushers and more than 100 dogs who relayed the package from Nenana to Nome.

The main route of the Iditarod trail extends from Seward in the south to Nome in the northwest, and was first surveyed by Walter Goodwin in 1908, and then cleared and marked by the Alaska Road Commission in 1910 and 1911.

The songs were first published in 1872 in a book entitled Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, by Theodore F. Seward.

When American Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step in a comprehensive plan to gain control of the entire northwest Pacific Coast.

When American Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step in a comprehensive plan to gain control of the entire northwest Pacific Coast.

The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895 to the American machinist Seward Thomas Johnson of Noblesville, Indiana, U. S. A.

Lincoln was with Senator Orville Browning when Seward brought in the first newspaper dispatches, which indicated Palmerston was demanding a release of the prisoners and an apology.

His father was John Seward Johnson I, and his mother was Ruth Dill, the sister of actress Diana Dill, therefore making him a first cousin of actor Michael Douglas.

Notable 19th-century alumni included Albert James Myer, Class of 1847, a military officer assigned to run the United States Weather Bureau at its inception, was a founding member of the International Meteorological Organization, and helped birth the U. S. Signal Corps, and for whom Fort Myer, Va., is named ; General E. S. Bragg of the Class of 1848, colonel of the Sixth Wisconsin Regiment and a brigadier general in command of the Iron Brigade who served one term in Congress and later was ambassador to Mexico and consul general of the U. S. in Cuba ; two other 1848 graduates, Clarence Seward and Thomas M. Griffith, who were assistant secretary of state and builder of the first national railroad across the Mississippi River, respectively ; and Charles J. Folger, Class of 1836, a United States Secretary of the Treasury in the 1880s.

It is Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is the victim of a vampire and he guides Dr. Seward and his friends in their efforts to save Lucy.

His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as " one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints.

Seward Public Schools is the only public district in the city.

The Boys and Girls Club has opened a new regional facility in the neighborhood, the Seward Park Audubon Society is opening an environmental learning center in nearby Seward Park and in 2008 the Brighton Playfield Science Park opened-one of the few free public science parks in the nation.

One public school is located in the neighborhood, Seward Montessori School ( using the Montessori method for grades K-8 ).

The annual Eastlake Shake fair ( renamed Lake Fest in 2006 ) is held in a closed-off section of Franklin Avenue E. between E. Roanoke and E. Louisa Streets on the playground of the TOPS @ Seward public school.

One hundred years after its heyday, some variation of the entire Historic Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome is still open to the public.