Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Mr. Webster's speech at Marshfield, Mass. Delivered September 1, 1848, and the speech on the Oregon Bill, delivered in the United States Senate, August 12, 1848.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.373 Author/Creator: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Pamphlet Date: 1848 Pagination: 1 v. : 24 p. : Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 14 cm Order a Copy
Press of T. R. Marvin. Stab sewn and removed from previous binding. Webster writes, "I have said that I shall consent to no extension of the area of slavery, upon this continent; nor to any increase of slave representation in the other House of Congress... We of the North... have done that which, if those who framed the Constitution had foreseen, they never would have agreed to slave representation."
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