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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the report of the Kansas investigating committee, in the case of Reeder against Whitfield.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.383 Author/Creator: Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Pamphlet Date: 1856 Pagination: 1 v. : 16 p. : Height: 21.9 cm, Width: 14.1 cm Order a Copy

Removed from previous binding. "If Whitfield is to be ousted because he was not elected in pursuance of any valid law, upon what principle can Reeder be put in by this House, when in his case there was neither law nor votes... It is the principle of all tyrannies, and the beginning of all usurpations; but I will not permit myself to believe that this House will commit such an outrage."

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883
Reeder, Andrew Horatio, 1807-1864
Whitfield, John W., fl. 1856

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