Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 73

9. [Jesse] [Atherton] Bynum, Speech of Mr. Bynum, of North Carolina, on the Resolution of Mr. Thompson, of South Carolina, on the Subject of Abolition. In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1846 (Washington, DC: Globe Office, 1840). (32 p.)

Speech objecting to Congress’s receiving petitions concerning abolition and attacking Representative John Quincy Adams’s challenge of the gag rule.