[Oregon. Statehood. Slavery] Gayle, John] - Speech of Mr. Gayle, of Alabama, on the Bill to Establish a Territorial Government in Oregon. Delivered in the House of Representatives of United States, March 28, 1848

Washington [D.C.], J. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1848. First edition. Removed. 14 pp. 8vo. Against Oregon admittance over the slavery issue: "The position I shall assume and attempt to maintain is, that Congress has no power to organize what is called a territorial government, by ordinance or otherwise; nor has Congress the power to pass laws for the people of the territories of the United States...The speech of the honorable member from Ohio, (Mr. Root,) delivered on the 15th of the present month. That speech breathes nothing but hostility to Southern institutions. It was uttered in a tone of defiance, and in such language of menace as left the impression that the honorable speaker thought that empty threats were quite sufficient to intimidate what he was pleased to call "Southern chivalry..What does the gentleman from Ohio mean by this haughty and vainglorious boasting? Does he think that the South are to be frightened from their duty to their country and themselves by these empty menaces? The proposition to exclude slave labor from the territories of the United States is a proposition to degrade the slave States—to render them inferior to the free States." John Gayle (1792-1859) "was Alabama's seventh governor and also served as a U.S. congressman, state legislator, and jurist. Gayle was a fervent champion of states' rights, and his advocacy laid the foundation for that movement in Alabama in the 1850s and for the realignment of state political parties." Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins: John Gayle, Encyl. of Alabama. Sabin 26798. A very good unopened (uncut) copy with a mail fold.

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