Drop Title Speech Of Mr R Dickinson Of Ohio On The Power Of The General Government To Legislate For

by Rodolphus Dickinson

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Washington : Tower Printers, 1848. Unbound. Very Good binding. Item #8450 Octavo. 8 pp. First edition. Unbound and uncut. Minor edgewear and soiling to the first and last leaf; light foxing. Dickinson argues in this speech that Congress does in fact have the right to determine whether new territories may be slave holding or not—this was not universally agreed upon at the time. He suggests that if an

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