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Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case : which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it. With an appendix, containing: I. The debates in the Senate in March, 1849, between Mr. Webster and Mr. Calhoun, on the legislative extension of the Constitution to territories, as contained in vol. II. ch. CLXXXII of the "Thirty years' view." : II. The inside view of the southern sentiment, in relation to the Wilmot Proviso, as seen in vol. II. ch. CLXVIII of the "Thirty years view." : III. Review of President Pierce's annual message to Congress of December, 1856, so far as it relates to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise Act and the classification of parties

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Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case : which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it. With an appendix, containing: I. The debates in the Senate in March, 1849, between Mr. Webster and Mr. Calhoun, on the legislative extension of the Constitution to territories, as contained in vol. II. ch. CLXXXII of the "Thirty years' view." : II. The inside view of the southern sentiment, in relation to the Wilmot Proviso, as seen in vol. II. ch. CLXVIII of the "Thirty years view." : III. Review of President Pierce's annual message to Congress of December, 1856, so far as it relates to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise Act and the classification of parties / by the author of the "Thirty years' view."
Author
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858
Publication
  • New York : D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, New York, 1857.
  • ©1857.

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D. Appleton and Company, publisher
Description
4, [1], 4-193, [7] pages; 24 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Scott, Dred, 1809-1858
  • United States. Supreme Court
  • Missouri compromise
  • Enslaved persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  • Slavery > United States > Extension to the territories
  • Slavery > United States > Legal status of enslaved persons in free states
  • Slavery > Law and legislation > United States
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Note
  • "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by D. Appleton & Company, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
  • Publisher's advertisements, including the "Prospectus and specimen pages of the New American Cyclopaedia of general knowledge," pages [2]-[7] at end.
Indexed In (note)
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Provenance (note)
  • inscribed: in pencil on recto of leaf preceding title page "Arthur B. Barteaux, New York, N.Y. July 28, 1894." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.973-B (Benton, T. H. ...Examination of...the Dred Scott case)
LCCN
01010150
OCLC
  • 849503
  • NYPGR849503-B
Author
Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858, author.
Title
Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case : which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it. With an appendix, containing: I. The debates in the Senate in March, 1849, between Mr. Webster and Mr. Calhoun, on the legislative extension of the Constitution to territories, as contained in vol. II. ch. CLXXXII of the "Thirty years' view." : II. The inside view of the southern sentiment, in relation to the Wilmot Proviso, as seen in vol. II. ch. CLXVIII of the "Thirty years view." : III. Review of President Pierce's annual message to Congress of December, 1856, so far as it relates to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise Act and the classification of parties / by the author of the "Thirty years' view."
Publisher
New York : D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, New York, 1857.
Copyright Date
©1857.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 1109
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-B (copy 1) (accession no. B541566) inscribed: in pencil on recto of leaf preceding title page "Arthur B. Barteaux, New York, N.Y. July 28, 1894." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-15162 or to the electronic resource.
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Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858. Thirty years' view. Selections.
D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
Barteaux, Arthur B., former owner.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.973-B (Benton, T. H. ...Examination of...the Dred Scott case)
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