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- GLC#
- GLC00267.381
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1854
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Truman, 1791-1884
- Title
- Speech of the Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, on the Nebraska question. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 10 and 11, 1854.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 23 p. : Height: 21.6 cm, Width: 14.8 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Printed by John T. and Lem. Towers. Original blue wrapper. "I have sometimes thought... that the North is in danger of being sold out, and that we are to be reduced to servitude. I can hardly believe we are in much danger. It is proper however for me to give full notice that if such an unhappy fate is before us I intend to reserve myself one liberty- that of choosing my own master, and I say now he shall be some high-toned Southern gentleman..."
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