Sammelband of Six Congressional Speeches on the Expansion of Slavery to U.S. Territories.

Hiram Warner; William H. Kelsey; Thomas G. Davidson; J. M. Mason; Benjamin Stanton; James Augustus Stewart

Congressional Globe, 1856

[Prelude to the Civil War: Slavery its the Expansion to New Territories] Rebound in fine modern cloth.  Fine binding and cover. Scattered foxing. Contents: 1. Slavery in the territories : speech of Hon. Hiram Warner, of Georgia, 1856; 2. Speech of Hon. W.H. Kelsey, of New York, on the slavery question; delivered in the House of Representatives, July 29, 1856; 3. Power of Congress over slavery in the territories : speech delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18, 1856; 4. Remarks of Senator Mason, of Virginia and Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, on the extension of slavery into free territory; in the senate of the United States, December 2, 1856; 5. Speech of Hon. Benjamin Stanton of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 23, 1856 on the power of Congress to exclude slavery from the territories; 6. Powers of the government of the United States : federal, state, and territorial : speech of Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, on African slavery : its status -- natural, moral, social, legal, and, constitutional : and, the origin, progress, present condition, and future destiny of the United States considered in connection with African slavery as a part of its social system : with the bearings of that institution upon the interests of all sections of the Union and upon the African race.  

A collection of individually published speeches by Congressmen on the expansion of slavery.