#william h Seward

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doodle

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I realized I never posted my art on here. My poor roommate came home the other day to discover I had like ten sticky note drawings posted up on our wall

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Storyboard on paper practice (sorry if it looks bad im very tired)

[altosynthesis]

William Seward but robot. (大鐵塊)

[livesinyesterday]

"Why wasn't I consulted?! I'm Secretary of State! You, you, you informally send a reactionary dotard, to- What will happen, when these peace commissioners arrive?" "We'll hear 'em out." "Oh, splendid! And next the Democrats will invite them up to hearings on the Hill, and the newspapers - well, the newspapers - the newspapers will ask why risk enraging the Confederacy over the issue of slavery when they're here to make peace? We'll lose every Democrat we've got, more than likely conservative Republicans will join them, and all our work, all our preparing the ground for the vote, laid waste, naught for naught." "The Blairs have promised support for the amendment if we listen to these people-" "-Oh, the Blairs promise, do they? You think they'll keep their promise once we have heard these delegates and refused them? Which we will have to do, since their proposal most certainly will be predicated on keeping their slaves!"

-- David Strathairn as William Henry Seward (b.1801-d.1872) in Lincoln (2012) - dir. Steven Spielberg

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The Seward tumblr takeover is glorious. Everywhere I go I see his face :)

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my favorite politicians

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BRO THAT WASN’T EVEN FUNNY WHAT ARE YOU JOKING ABOUT

States Secretary playing political game w/ his mentor📌

[deadpresidents]

The Seward attempt is wild because Powell tried to shoot (at point blank range) the first son that intercepted him but the gun jammed (at which point he bludgeoned the son with it and cracked his head open but he lived) and while he maimed Seward, the only reason he didn’t manage to kill him was because Seward rolled off the bed onto the floor and it was dark enough in the room that Powell couldn’t see very well. Seward’s bloodstained sheet is actually on display in the Seward House museum in Auburn NY in a room set up to look like Seward’s bedroom in his Washington house.

Seward had also been badly injured in a carriage accident a little over a week before the assassination attempt and was wearing a bandage or brace on his face to help heal a broken jaw.

The metal from the brace and the thick canvas of the bandages helped protect Seward when Powell started stabbing him. Seward was still nearly killed by Powell, but that probably kept the attack from being fatal. It's pretty remarkable that Seward not only survived, but eventually went back to work as Secretary of State and even bought Alaska!

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this drawing trend

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Cold Wave

Paper stuff

[livesinyesterday]

The New York Tribune reported on April 17 that "the terrible news of Mr. Lincoln's death was broken to [Seward] last night." [...] Brooks reported on April 20 that a few days before, Seward had asked to have his bed moved near the window. "His eye caught the stars and stripes at half-mast on the War Department," and Seward told his attendant: "the President is dead." The attendant, according to Brooks, "stammered and changed color as he tried to say nay," but Seward continued: "If he had been alive he would have been the first to call on me; but he has not been here, nor has he sent to know how I am, and there's the flag at half mast." Then Seward, "lay in silence, the great tears coursing down his gashed cheeks, and the dreadful truth sinking into his mind."

-- Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man

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My Civil War Historian Opinions, as told in Memes, Part II | inspired by @chamberlainswifey