Author: Douglas, [Stephen Arnold]
Title: Speech of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, on the Territorial Question. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13 and 14, 1850
Description: Washington [D.C.], Printed by John T. Towers, 1850. First edition. Removed. 31 pp. 8vo. Douglas answers the famous speech of Webster and Calhoun, pointing out that the Wilmot Proviso was an unconstitutional engraftment on a revenue bill supporting the Treaty with Mexico, not a territorial proviso such as the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and that the Proviso was the shibboleth that Northern politicians intended to use to create a new (free soil) party to overwhelm the two major parties in the North, but failed when the Treaty with Mexico was adopted without the proviso. He also anticipates the Lincoln debate position that no law can prevail if against local feelings as well as praising Henry Clay for proposing the Compromise of 1850. LCP. Afro-Americana, 3215. A very good copy, light foxing.

Keywords: , Americana, Afro-Americana, Americana, 19th c., Antebellum Government Documents, California, Slavery, Compromise of 1850, Pamphlet


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