Sammelband of Twelve Speeches and Pamphlets on Bloody Kansas

John P. Hale; William H. Seward; Moses Norris; James Knox; Robert Augustus Toombs; Isaac Toucey; John Bell; Charles Sumner; John J. Crittenden

New York Tribune; Buell and Blanchard; Union Office; Congressional Globe; Greeley & McElrath;  L. Towers; 1854-1860

[Bloody Kansas: The Expansion of Slavery to the Territories, Prelude to the Civil War] Rebound in fine modern cloth.  Fine binding and cover. Leather spine and cover labels with gilt. Generally clean, unmarked pages.  Old Dartmouth College Stamps. Contents: 1. Speech of the Hon. M. Norris, of New Hampshire, in the United States Senate, March 3, 1854 on Nebraska and Kansas; 2. The wrongs of Kansas : speech of Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, in the United States Senate, February 1856; 3. The admission of Kansas : speech of William H. Seward of New York; 4. Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin of Louisiana on the Kansas question : delivered in the Senate, May 2, 1856; 5. Nebraska and Kansas. Speech of Hon. James Knox, of Illinois, in the House of representatives, May 19, 1854; 6. The border ruffian code in Kansas (with map); 7. Speech of the Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, on the President's Kansas message : Delivered in the Senate February 28, 1856; 8. Speeches of Senator Toucey, upon Kansas affairs : delivered in the Senate, February 18 and March 5, 1856; 9. Front cover image for The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, July 3 and 5, 1850, on the bill for admission of California into the Union, the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries The compromise bill : speech of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, July 3 and 5, 1850, on the bill for admission of California into the Union, the establishment of territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, and making proposals to Texas for the settlement of her northern and western boundaries; 10. The crime against Kansas : Speech of Hon. Chas. Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856; 11. The crime against Kansas : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts ; in the Senate of the United States ; May 19, 1856; 12. Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, on the admission of the state of Kansas.