Speech of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, on the Territorial Question. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 13 and 14, 1850.
Washington [D.C.]: Printed by John T. Towers, 1850. 31 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. 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..... More