Great Right of Self-Government - and the Union. Speech of Hon. G.B. Adrain, of New Jersey, on the Election of Speaker. Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 14, 1859.
[Washington, D.C.]: Printed by Lemuel Towers, 1859. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Garnett Bowditch Adrain (1815-1878) was a New Brunswick attorney who served two terms in Congress from 1857 to 1861. Here, in opposing the Buchanan administration's candidate for Speaker of the House, T. S. Bocock of Virginia..... More