The Territorial Slave Code Speech of Vice President Henry Wilson Argues Against the Constitutionality of Slavery 1860
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Territorial Slave Code. The Honorable Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. Delivered in the Senate, January 25, 1860. Washington D.C: 1860. First edition. 40 pages 9" x 5.75" inches. Removed from a large volume. Henry Wilson was a Massachusetts senator and Vice President under Ulysses Grant. who championed the abolitionist cause. In this speech, Wilson argues against the constitutionality of slavery , for if allowed, then slaves can be brought into the territories. It is a response to Albert Gallatin Brown's speech: Protection to Slave Property in the Territories, which argued that slaves, as property, should be subject to the same protections in the territories as any other form of proprety. Wilson forcefully rejects this claim and identifies "Slave Power" as one of the great evils in the US, asserting that it "holds the National Government, in all its departments, in absolute subjugation." He gives a history of the government's conciliation's to Slave Power but ends his speech with the challenge to "save those Territories to free labor, check the reopening slave traffic, and put the National Government in harmony with a progressive Christian civilization." The spine is somewhat chipped after being removed from its larger volume, and there is minor spotting on front and back covers, but overall in very good condition.Item #17559
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