Title: Speeches of Messrs. Hayne & Webster, in the United States Senate, on the Resolution of Mr. Foot. (Caption Title).
Description: [Boston]: Printed by Richardson, Lord & Holbrook and Beals & Homer, (1830). (1830). - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, bound in homemade tan wraps titled in ink on the front cover. The covers are stained & creased with a small chip out from the bottom front corner of the front cover. 40 pages, printed in two columns. "Mr. Hayne's Speech, Debate in the Senate, on Mr. Ford's Resolution, Thursday, January 21." p. [1]-16. "Mr. Webster's Speech. In Senate, January 26, 1830." p. [17]-37. And "Notes", p. 38-40. The front corners of several pages are slightly chipped and there is occasional light foxing to the edges of a few pages. Good.
RARE. Very probably the first Boston edition. Sabin 102274; Howes W-200: "Most famous American oration of the nineteenth century, presenting the doctrine of a Union paramount and indissoluble."
Robert Young Hayne (1791 - 1839) was a senator from South Carolina and a leading advocate of the states' rights doctrine. He favored low-tariff policies that would be to the benefit of the agricultural states and he held that slavery policy should be legislated state by state. Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852) was a senator from Massachusetts who supported high tariffs and a powerful central government. In this debate concerning the sale of western lands Hayne accused senators of wanting to increase the power of the federal government at the expense of the individual states.
From the library of a Joseph P. Moody, signed by him on the cover sheet. This is quite likely the same Joseph Moody who brought action on behalf of African American workers against the Albemarle Paper Company for violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He has marked in pencil the pro-slavery commentary in the speech of Hayne: "Sir, I have had some opportunities of making comparisons between the condition of the free negroes of the North, and the slaves of the South, and the comparison has left not only an indelible impression of the superior advantages of the latter, but has gone far to reconcile me to slavery itself. Good .
Keywords: AMERICANA; HISTORY; POLITICS; ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE; DANIEL WEBSTER; ORATION; SPEECHES OF MESSRS. HAYNE & WEBSTER, IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, ON THE RESOLUTION OF MR. FOOT; DEBATE; RESOLUTION OF MR. FOOT; STATES' RIGHTS; NULLIFICATION; PUBLIC LANDS
- Book number: 97370
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