Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 100

30. Horace Mann, Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union. Delivered in the United States House of Representatives, February 15, 1850 (Boston: Redding & Co., 1850). (35 p.)

Speech objecting to the extension of slavery into the territories during the debate leading up to the Compromise of 1850. (The collection has another copy of this speech issued by a different publisher in volume 66 [no. 12]. It also has another copy of this speech issued by the same publisher in volume 56 [no. 19].)