Seward, Wm. H.; Trumbull, Lyman; Douglas, Stephen A.; Wilson, Henry; Howard, Benjamin C.; et al. Sammelband of 32 Slavery & Anti-Slavery Speeches, Kansas and Dred Scott Case. Washington: Buell & Blanchard..&c., 1856-1860. [12515]
Sometime bound together in plain brown buckram, a white library label at base of spine, ink stamps on the new end papers, 9 x 5 3/4 inches. Each item described below. All very good except for some pamphlets being too closely trimmed, as noted below. All are bound without wrappers; "trimmed closely or closely trimmed" below indicates loss of letters at the edge of the page. There are no library markings on any of the pamphlets. Very good. Hardcover.
These are the items in the order that they are bound together in this volume:
Press and Tribune Documents for 1860, No. 2. The Republican Party the Conservators of the Union. Speech Hon. Wm. H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, February 29th, 1860. 14, [2] pp.
Kansas Affairs. 34th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 200. Submitted by Wm. A. Howard and John Sherman. "The Special Committee appointed to investigate the troubles in the Territory of Kansas..." 29 pp. Printed in double columns; about half of the leaves are trimmed too close, affecting the first letters of the lines.
Rendition of Fugitive Slaves. The Acts of 1793 and 1850, and the Decisions of the Supreme Court Sustaining Them. The Dred Scott Case - What the Court Decided. Published by the National Democratic Campaign Committee. 1860. 15, [1] pp.
Remarks of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, On seizure of the Arsenals at Harper's Ferry, Va., and Liberty, Mo., and in vindication of the Republican Party and its Creed, in response to Senators Chesnut, Yulee, Saulsbury, Clay, and Pugh. Delivered in the United State Senate, December 6, 7, and 8, 1859. 16 pp.
Speech of William H. Seward, delivered at Rochester, Monday, October 25, 1858. 8 pp. [Pro-Republican, Anti-Democrat campaign speech].
Tract No. II. Lands for the Landless. Published by the Republican Association of Washington. 8 pp.
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the Pacific Railroad Bill. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 17, 1858. 8 pp.
Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the Kansas-Lecompton Constitution, and the report of the Committee of Conference. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 29, 1858. 8 pp. "Printed by Lemuel Towers."
The Army of the United States not to be Employed as a Police to Enforce the Laws of the Conquerors of Kansas. Speech of William H. Seward on the Army Bill. In the Senate of the United States, August 7, 1856. 15 pp.
Kansas and the Compromises. Speech of Hon. Jesse O. Norton, of Illinois, in the House of Representatives, August 9, 1856. 8 pp. Scuff and small hole on final leaf.
The President's Message. Speech of Hon. J. Collamer, of Vermont. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1856. 16 pp., a couple of leaves closely trimmed. Printed at the Office of the Congressional Globe.
Defence of the Republican Party. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, on the President's Message. In the Senate of the United States, December 19, 1856. 16 pp., one corner repaired with loss of a few words, a couple of pages trimmed too closely.
The Relative Powers of the Senate and House of Representatives. Speech of William H. Seward. In the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1856. 6 pp.
The State of Affairs in Kansas. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. In the Senate, February 18, 1856. Published by the Republican Association of the District of Columbia. 16 pp.
Who are Sectional? By George M. Weston. 7 pp.
Freedom National - Slavery Sectional. Speech of Hon. John J. Perry, of Maine, on the Comparative Nationality and Sectionalism of the Republican and Democratic Parties. In the House of Representatives, May 1, 1856. 15, [1] pp.; two leaves trimmed too closely.
To the People of the United States. The Executive Committee of the New England Emigrant Aid Company respectfully ask your attention to the following facts. By Thomas H. Webb. 8 pp. [Corrects false views of this association sending emigrants to Kansas, as promulgated by some members of Congress].
The immediate admission of Kansas as a State. Speech of Hon. William H. Seward, of New York. In the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856. 16 pp. Several closely-trimmed leaves.
Defense of Massachusetts. Speech of Hon. Anson Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856. 8 pp.
The "Laws" of Kansas. Speech of Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856. 16 pp.
Kansas Affairs in the Senate. Minority Report of the Senate Committee on Territories. Made March 12, 1856, by Judge Collamer, of Vermont. 16 pp. One page corner repaired with loss of a few words.
Admission of Kansas. Speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 2, 1856, On the Bill reported from the Committee on Territories to authorize the people of the Territory of Kansas to form a Constitution and State Government preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States. 8 pp., two of which are too closely trimmed.
Affairs in Kansas Territory. Speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 14, 1856, On the motion to print thirty-one thousand extra copies of the Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Committee on Territories, in reference to Affairs in Kansas. 16 pp.
Great Speech of Lyman Trumbull, on the Issues of the Day. Delivered in Chicago, Saturday, August 7th, 1858. 16 pp. Press and Tribune Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment, 43 Clark St., Chicago.
Who Have Violated Compromises. Speech of Hon. John Hickman, of Pennsylvania. Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 12, 1859. 8 pp.
Tract for Americans. Fillmore's Political History and Position. George Law and Chauncey Schaffer's reasons for Repudiating Fillmore and Donelson, And the Action of the Know-Nothing State Convention at Syracuse on the Resolutions censuring Brooks's Assault on Senator Sumner, &c. Speech of Hon. E. B. Morgan, of N. Y., in U. S. House of Representatives, Aug. 4, 1856. 16 pp., a few ink splatters.
Speech. In the Senate...by Stephen Douglas, on the question of Kansas entering the Union as a State. [lacks the title leaf, not the exact title]. Pages 3-29.
The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime the True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. IN the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856. 32 pp.; several leaves too closely trimmed.
Colonization and Commerce. An Address before the Young Men's Mercantile Association of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 25, 1859. By Frank. P. Blair, Jun., of Missouri. [A call to end slavery and to relocate freed slaves to central or south America]. 8 pp.
Territorial Slave Code. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1860. 16 pp.; several trimmed too closely.
Speech of Orris S. Ferry, of Connecticut. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 10, 1860. 7 pp. [Against the expansion of slavery to new territories or states].
Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of Judges Thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford, December Term, 1856. By Benjamin C. Howard, from the Nineteenth Volume of Hoard's Reports. Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer. 1857. 239 pp. Very good.
