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- GLC#
- GLC05116.18
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 6 August 1856
- Author/Creator
- Sage, Russell, 1816-1906
- Title
- Speech of Hon. Russell Sage, of New-York, on the profession and acts of the President of the United States; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise...
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 19 p. : Height: 22.1 cm, Width: 13.8 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
(title continues)... the outrages in Kansas; and the sectional influence and aggressions of the slave power. Delivered in the House of Representatives; published by Weed, Parsons & Co. in Albany, New York. Representative Sage quotes Henry Clay: " '...I never could vote for it myself; and I repeat, that I never can and never will vote, and no earthly power ever will make me vote, to spread slavery over territory where it does not exist.' With this declaration of Mr. Clay I take my stand." Proposes the admission of Kansas into the Union as a free state. Eighteen pages of text followed by one page of advertisements.
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