#seweed

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via ❥ ppchicc

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Weed and Seward are definition of soulmates and you can't convince me otherwise. This is from Weed's autobiography:

"The acquaintance formed at Rochester in 1824 with Mr. Seward had been ripening into a very close friendship. Our relations, social and political, had become so intimate and our sentiments and sympathies proved so congenial, that our interests, pursuits, and hopes of promoting each other's welfare and happiness, and of being useful to our country, became identical. Our views in relation to public affairs, and our estimate of public men, rarely differed. I saw in him in a remarkable degree rapidly developing elements of character, which could not fail to render him eminently useful in public life. I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity. I saw also in him a rare capacity for intellectual labor, with an industry which never tired and required no relaxation; to all which was added a purity and delicacy of habit and character almost feminine."

I could talk about them forever.

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wtf governor (just henry seward being henry seward

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My dear Weed, the sweetness of his temper inclines me to love my tyrant. I had no idea that dictators were such amiable creatures.

William Henry Seward in a letter to Thurlow Weed, 14 december 1838

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Weed was mentioned at the Seward's statue unveiling ceremony 🥹

"[...] much less could I match myself with the lifelong friend, Mr. Weed, who honors us with his presence here today - who attended on the first footsteps of Mr. Seward on his entrance upon public life, and was by his side in all the steep ascent of his long career - his friend, his admirer, his counselor, his constant mediator between the complications of statesmanship and the exactions of politics. [Applause. ] "

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The autobiographies of Weed and Seward are like:

Weed: Life wasn't easy, you know, I had to work hard to support my family when we didn't have money for food...

Seward: And then my dad got ANGRY cause I was buying expensive CLOTHES so I run away to GEORGIA where I became the PRINCIPAL of the new ACADEMY!!

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Here's a nice Seweed story for Seward's birthday, from his wife's letter to her sister:

"Weed I do like very much notwithstanding he did not look at me more than twice all the time he was here - he is perfectly unassuming and so sincere I wish you could hear or see him talk to Henry - "Well" said he "Seward I stayed till 12 oclock last night with Granger - "of course" said Henry - "Why" said Weed "I never did such a thing before and I can hardly account for it now" "You used to stay with me until 12 very often" said Henry" "O that is another thing, I talk nothing but poloticks to Granger" - He and Henry sit very close together and talk very low"

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Everyone is waiting, I have to go...