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Speech of Hon. William H. Seward for the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Signed by J. I. Werner on cover. Seward states, "I will grant, for the sake of the argument, that with Federal battalions you can carry slavery into Kansas, and maintain it there. Are you quite confident...

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Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.

Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Last page advertises and lists prices for different issues of the Tribune. Sumner declares, "...I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much...

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The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.

Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Contains the stamp of T. B. Pugh, bookseller, on the upper left corner of front cover. Contains water stains.

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The "Laws" of Kansas. Speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana.

Colfax, a United States Representative from Indiana, writes "The only relief possible, if Kansas is not promptly admitted as a State, which I hope may be effected, is in a change of the Administration and of the party that so recklessly misrules the...

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Subduing freedom in Kansas. Report of the Congressional Committee, presented in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 1, 1856.

Presented in the House of Representatives, published in New York by the Tribune Office. Howard and Sherman report the committee's findings on Kansas's struggle for admission to the Union: "It cannot be doubted that if its condition as a free...

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