Bayly, Thomas Henry

[cover title] Slavery in the Territories. Speech of Hon. T. H. Bayly, of Virginia, in the House or Representatives, May 16, 1848.

[Washington]: Congressional Globe Office, [1848]. Unbound. Good binding. Item #7540

Octavo. 15, [1 (blank)] pp. Printed and folded, never bound; untrimmed. Early fold lines from being trifolded; general wrinkling and toning to the paper; faint and early tidelines along the bottom margin; a few instances of silverfishing to the margins, only—in one instance, the silverfishing is quite close to a few lines text, but no text is affected. Uncommon.

Bayly served 12 years in the House of Representatives. He is perhaps most noted as a dedicated Unionist who argued that the issue of slavery in the territories was not an issue to be decided by the executive or legislative branches of government, but a matter for the courts. He was largely responsible for rallying southern and western Democrats to defeat the Wilmot proviso. He was a Virginian and a slave-owner but largely maintained a moderate stance on this issue, recognizing that the growing sectional tensions were straining the Union. Oxford American National Biography. Uncommon. OCLC identifies only half a dozen institutional holdings. Sabin 4077.

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