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Seward for approval. Many people at the North were dissatisfied with
some measures of the administration, and the rebellion had been
characterized as a "Nigger war," even at the North, besides all this the
Union arms had met with terrible loss, and Mr. Seward wisely saw the
evil results which might follow such a proclamation at this time.
Therefore, through his advice the paper was held until after the victory
at Antietam, when the country was further educated and better able to
understand and receive the real issue of the war.

Early in the spring of 1865 he was thrown from his carriage, and his jaw
and one arm were broken. While confined to his bed by these injuries he
was attacked by a would-be assassin, and very severely wounded, being
cut several times with a knife--his son Frederick W. came to his rescue
and was also injured. It was on the same night that President Lincoln
was shot, April 14. The assassin escaped from the house, but was soon
arrested and hanged with the other conspirators, July 7.

Mr. Seward's recovery was very slow and painful, and it is thought the
shock given by the accident, and this murderous attack impaired his
intellectual force, for when he again resumed his duties under
President Johnson, he supported the President's reconstruction policy,
becoming at dissonance with the party he had so satisfactorily served,
until now. At the close of his official term in March, 1867, he retired
from public life, and soon made an extended tour through California,
Oregon and Alaska; the latter having been acquired during his
secretaryship, and mainly through his efforts.

Accompanied by his family he made a tour around the world, returning to
Auburn in October, 1871. He was everywhere received with honor and great
distinction. The observations made during this extensive voyage are
embodied in "Wm. H. Seward's Travels around the World," prepared by his
adopted daughter, Olive Risley Seward. He died at Auburn, New York,
October 10th, 1872, lamented by a nation.

HORATIO SEYMOUR.

One whose name and deeds are familiar to the people of the whole Union
was Horatio Seymour, the most eminent and notable of the later Governors
of New York. Born May 31st, 1810, at Pompey, Onondaga county, New York;
a hamlet in what was then almost a wilderness.

When he was nine years of age his parents moved to Utica. His school
education was obtained at the academies of Oxford and Geneva, New York,
and Partridg