Spaulding, E.G. [Elbridge Gerry]
President's Plan. Speech of Hon. E.G. Spaulding, of N. York, in Favor of Gen. Taylor's Plan for Admitting California and New Mexico, and Contrasting the Chicago Convention with the Proposed Nashville Convention. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, April 4, 1850
[Washington, D.C.], Gideon & Co. printers, 1850. First edition. Self wrappers. 16 pp. 8vo. "I am opposed to the extension of slavery in every form, and in all bills whereCongress assumes to legislate for the people in the territories, I think it righ inprinciple, an safest in practice, t incorporate in the territorial bill the Jeffersonia restriction, contained in he ordinance adopted under the old Confederation in 1787 prohibiting slavery in he territory northwest of the Ohio river, andrecognised after the adoption of the present Constitution by a billapproved by General Washington, August 7, 1789." Scarce. Sabin 89038. LCP. Afro-Americana 9674. A very good unopened (uncut) and untrimmed copy with a mail fold.
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