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[drop-title] SPEECH OF MR. R. DICKINSON, OF OHIO, ON THE POWER OF THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT TO LEGISLATE FOR THE TERRITORIES. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 17, 1848
[Washington]: Tower Printers, 1848. Unbound. 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.....
