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| | [CTRL] [15a] Treason in America -- From Aaron Burr to Averell |
 | | State Chairman Schell was a close friend of Commodore Vanderbilt, and would serve as Vanderbilt's broker, financial manager and representative on corporate boards for the next two decades. |
 | | Thus Schell was in charge of the United States Customs operations for New York, and was in a position to notice, or not to notice, that ships were embarking from his bailiwick for the enslavement of tens of thousands of fls, and the included, usual deaths of thousands of them in transit. |
 | | In stating this argument in favor of freedom, "peacefully if we can, forcibly if we must," let me not be misunderstood....(31) New York in Wartime The city council rejected Wood's proposal for treason, and it may be said with confidence that the vast majority of New Yorkers, merchants and workers, were loyal to the Union. |
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