Remarks of Messrs. Clemens, Butler and Jefferson Davis, on the Vermont Resolutions Relating to Slavery. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 10, 1850.
Washington, [D.C.]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1850. 15 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Soil spot and blind stamp on title, else very good. Sabin 13621. Item #36013
The Vermont Resolutions gave grave offense to the South as it stated: "That slavery is a crime against humanity, and a sore evil in the body politic, that was excused in the framers of the Federal Constitution as a crime entailed upon the country by their predecessors, and tolerated solely as a thing of inexorable necessity" and went on to urge every way be used to stop its spread. The three senators from the South objected. Clemens was senator from Alabama, Butler was the Senator from South Carolina (his relative, Preston Brooks would badly beat Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate in 1856 for insulting Butler), and Davis was Senator from Mississippi and later President of the Confederacy.
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