Historical and legal examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case
Subtitle: which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise act, and the self-extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it
By: by the author of the "Thirty years' view."
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Published: 1858
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Copyright date: 1857
Other titles: Examination of the Dred Scott case
Notes: On cover: "Thomas H. Benton."

"With an appendix, containing: The debates in the Senate in March, 1849, between Mr. Webster and Mr. Calhoun, on the legislative extension of the Constitution to territories; the inside view of the southern sentiment, in relation the Wilmot Proviso; review of President Pierce's annual message to Congress of December, 1856, so far as it relates to the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise act and the classification of parties."

Includes bibliographical references.

[6] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end.

Handwritten inscription in pencil on flyleaf: R.F. Leaward, 400 Dearborn St., Chicago, Jan. 26, [18]94.

Bound in cloth.