1854 SAM HOUSTON on Slavery. Important Speech by Texas Senator, Sam Houston on Nebraska & Kansas Bill. Puritan Matthew Mead [1630-1699]

Matthew Mead [1630-1699]

Early bookplate on pastedown and another on the ffep from the Saint Andrew Society [Glasgow]

Jonathan Strong

some minor foxing on rear flap

1854 SAM HOUSTON on Slavery. Important Speech by Texas Senator, Sam Houston on Nebraska & Kansas Bill. Puritan Matthew Mead [1630-1699]A very scarce address by Texas Senator, Sam Houston, on the eve of one of the most disastrous and consequential votes Congress would ever make . . . the passage of the Nebraska Bill. Scarce. No copies available in the trade we can locate. See the excellent account of the critical nature of this act from the Smithsonian Magazine below. Houston, Sam. Speech of Senator Houston, of Texas. On the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, Previous to the Final Passage of