Political speeches
Contributors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872; United States. Congress Senate; United States. Congress House
Publisher: Buell & Blanchard, printers
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Politics and government; Extension to the territories; States' rights (American politics); Constitutional law; Missouri compromise; Slavery; History
Description: Collection of Congressional speeches and other political pamphlets.
Notes: Title from spine.

Two columns to the page.

Some pamphlets printed by Lemuel Towers, Congressional Globe Office, Union Office, and Office of the New York Tribune.

Book, bound in marbled boards, with leather spine and corners.
Table of contents: title: The Kansas Conference bill: speech of Hon. J.J. Crittenden, of Kentucky (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 27, 1858); title: Report of the Kansas Conference Committee: speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer, of Vermont (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 27, 1858); title: They "stoop to conquer;" or, the English swindle: speech of Senator Wade, of Ohio (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 27, 1858); title: Speech of Hon. William Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, on the admission of Kansas, and in defense of his Compromise Bill (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1858); title: Speech of Hon. Marcus J. Parrott, delegate from Kansas (Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, March 31, 1858); title: Kansas, the Lecompton Constitution: speech of Hon. David Kilgore, of Indiana (Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, March 24, 1858); title: The suicide of slavery: speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Mass. (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 25, 1858); title: Admission of Kansas, vindication of the rights of the people against executive usurpation: speech of Hon. Edward Joy Morris, of Pennsylvania (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 26, 1858); title: Lecompton Constitution: speech of Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, Jan. 28, 1858; title: Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, against admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 22, 1858); title: Kansas-Lecompton Constitution: speech of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, in the Senate of the United States, March 9 and 10, 1858; title: The Union-Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution: speech of Hon. James R. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in the Senate of the United States, March 4 and 8, 1858; title: Plain truths for the people: speech of Senator Wade, of Ohio (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13 and 15, 1858); title: Freedom in Kansas: speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, March 3, 1858; title: Speech of Hon. J. Collamer, of Vermont, on the Kansas question (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 1 and 2, 1858); title: Speech of Hon. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, on the admission of the state of Kansas (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 17, 1858); title: Admission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution: speech of John B. Haskin, of New York, against the admission of Kansas, and in favor of justice to Northern Democrats (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 10, 1858); title: The rights of the people of Kansas: speech of Preston King, of New York, in the Senate of the United States, March 16th, 1858; title: Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, on the President's message on the Lecompton Constitution (Delivered in the Senate, February 3d and 4th, 1858); title: Speech of Mr. Fessenden, of Maine, on the message of the President transmitting the Lecompton Constitution (Delivered in the United States Senate, February 8, 1858); title: Speech of James Dixon, of Connecticut (Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 9, 1858); title: Democracy and slavery: speech of the Hon. Burt Van Horn, of Niagara County, in Assembly, February 18th, 1858; title: Speech of Hon. I.N. Morris, of Illinois, against the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitution (Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1858); title: Kansas and the Supreme Court: speech of John P. Hale, of New Hampshire (Delivered in the United States Senate, January 19 and 21, 1858); title: No more slave states: speech of Alexander S. Diven, on the Kansas resolutions; title: Kansas-Lecompton Convention: speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the President's message, delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1857; title: Power of Congress over the territories: speech of Hon. David Ritchie, of Penn., in the House of Representatives, April 24, 1856; title: The wrong of Kansas: speech of Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, in the United Sates Senate, February, 1856; title: Minority report, July 11, 1856: Kansas affairs / Mr. Mordecai Oliver; title: Subduing freedom in Kansas: report of the Congressional Committee, presented in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 1, 1856; title: The "laws" of Kansas: speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, June 21, 1856; title: The immediate admission of Kansas as a state: speech of Hon, William H. Seward, of New York, in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856; title: The crime against Kansas: speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856; title: Kansas contested election: speech of Hon. John Hickman, of Pa. (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1856); title: Speech of Hon. Geo. G. Dunn, of Indiana, on the resolution reported by the Committee of Elections in the contested-election case from the territory of Kansas (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 11, 1856); title: Affairs in Kansas: speech of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Penn'a (Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1856); title: Proceedings and debate in House of Representatives, on the election of speaker, January 14, 1856; title: Speech of William H. Seward, on the Army Bill, in the Senate of the United States, August 7, 1856; title: Remarks of Messrs. Grow, Quitman, and T.L. Harris, on the Missouri Compromise, and the responsibility for the organization of the House, delivered January 18 and 19, 1856; title: Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, on Kansas territorial affairs  (Delivered in the Senate United States, March 20, 1856); title: Kansas territory: Report (Rep. Com. No. 282) in the Senate of the United States, August 11, 1856 / S.A. Douglas; title: Views of the minority, in the Senate of the United States, August 11, 1856 / J. Collamer; title: Affairs of Kansas: Report (Rep. Com. No. 34) in the Senate of the United States, March 12, 1856 / S. A. Douglas.