Speech of Mr. Smith, of Conn. on the bill "to admit California into the Union, to establish territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, making proposals to Texas for the establishment of the western and northern boundaries"
[Washington, D.C.]: Gideon & Co., printers, 1850. 32 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. A very good untrimmed, partially unopened copy with institutional stamp on wrappers, mail fold. Sabin 84458. Cowan 593. Draper 8122. Item #37653
"...showing the responsiblitites of the late Administration on account of the acquisitions which were the result of our recent was with Mexico- were the result of our recent war with Mexico- the entire harmony of the elements on which the prosperity of the different sections of the Union depend- the impracticability of maintaining an equilibrium between the free states and slave states and how useless such equilibrium, if attainable, would be to the latter- the inconsiderable importance of the various slavery questions which, during the last few years, have made so much disturbance in and out of Congress- the legal, social, and physical obstacles to the introduction of slavery into our newly acquired territories, and the certainty that such territories will ultimately be admitted into the Union as free states, whether "the proviso" to be or be not adopted, and setting forth the objections to the scheme of compromise and adjustment proposed by the aforesaid bill, and urging considerations to evince the superiority of the method of treating these subjects recommended by President Taylor. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 8, 1850." Some mormon interest as it includes letters from John M. Bernhisel and Erastus Snow, concerned chiefly with the physical description of Deseret, and a letter from General John Wilson, concerning the people.
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