Speech of Horace Mann, on the right of Congress to legislate for the territories of the United States, and its duty to exclude slavery therefrom ... Revised edition

by Horace Mann

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Boston: William B. Fowle, 1848. 8vo, pp. 31, 1 ; fine copy in original printed green wrappers. First published in Washington the same year but with only 20 pages, here revised and improved, in better style, and in larger type than any previous edition. This edition is also Mann's final text. Mann was elected to Congress in 1848 to fill the vacancy left by the death of John Quincy Adams. This is his first speech to Congress and it left a mark, advocating

• Binding: Wrappers

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