Research Catalog

Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas : of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, February 23, 1859.

Title: Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas : of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, February 23, 1859.
Author: Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Lemuel Towers, 1859.

Filter by

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare+ F 11-22	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Description

32 p.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Non-intervention, popular sovereignty

Subjects

Note

"... in reply to Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, in opposition to the passage of a code of laws by Congress to protect slavery in the territories, and in favor of banishing from the halls of Congress all questions touching domestic slavery in the territories and remanding them to the people of the territories to be disposed of as they see proper, subject to an appeal to the judicial tribunals to test the validity of the territorial enactments under the constitution of the United States, together with an appendix showing the position of distinguished public men on this question in the great contests of 1854 and 1856."--T.p.

Call Number

*C p.v.1447,no.5

OCLC

Author

Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861.

Title

Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas : of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, February 23, 1859.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Lemuel Towers, 1859.

Connect to:

Request Access to Special Collections Material

Research Call Number

Sc Rare+ F 11-22