Speech of Hon. M.J. Crawford, of Georgia, on the Election of Speaker. Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 15, 1859.
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859. 8 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. A good copy, several small tears or chips on edges of leaves. Sabin 17442. Item #35974
Crawford (1820-1883), one of the Fire-Eaters, served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1855 to 1861 and then in the Confederate Government. After threatening to hang a northern congressman should he speak his mind, he states: "we will never submit to the inauguration of a Black Republican President." As to how they will prevent it, he answers "that will be for ourselves to determine; and we do not propose to give our enemies the benefit of the information. Now I speak for myself, and not for the delegation. We have endeavored for forty years to settle this question between the North and the South, and find it impossible. I, therefore, am without hope in the Union, so are hundreds of thousands of my countrymen at home. The most confiding of them all are, sir, for 'equality in the Union or independence out of it;' having lost all hope of the former, I am for “INDEPENDENCE NOW, AND INDEPENDENCE FOREVER.” Not in LCP. Afro-Americana, Dumond, AAS.
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