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Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 Argument of Wendell Phillips, Esq. before the Committee on Federal Relations, (of the Massachusetts Legislature,) ...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.149 Author/Creator: Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Pamphlet signed Date: 1855 Pagination: 41 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm Order a Copy

Title continues "... in support of the petitions for the removal of Edward Greely Loring from the office of Judge of Probate." Inscribed with the initials W.P. to Albert G. Brown. Calls for the removal of Massachusetts probate Judge Loring because he ordered two fugitive slaves to be forced back into slavery under the federal Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Printed by J.B. Yerrinton & Son, Boston. Albert Gallatin Brown was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Loring, Edward G. (Edward Greely), 1802-1890
Burns, Anthony, 1834-1862

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