(abolition)

Speeches of Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate, on the Resolution of Mr. Foot, Jan,1830. Also Mr. Webster’s Celebrated Speeches On The Slavery Compromise Bill, March 7, 1850

115pp. 8vo, Boston: A. T. Hotchkiss & W. P. Fetridge, 1853. Original yellow printed wrappers, back wrapper missing, front wrapper creased and soiled, text generally very good, final signature sprung.

Reprints the famous debate between Webster (“most famous American oration of the nineteenth century” — Howes) and Hayne over protective tariffs, in which issues of wide-ranging significance (States’ rights, slavery, the Constitution, etc.), were debated with the kind forensic brilliance rarely seen in the land of Dan Quayle. Reprinted here with Webster’s equally famous oration supporting the Compromise of 1850, which won the day for the Compromise, but lost Webster the support of his abolitionist constituents Howes W 200 (1st ed.).

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