Stevens, Thaddeus:

SPEECH.....OF PENN., ON THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION, AND THE SLAVERY ISSUE.

Washington: Congressional Globe Office, 1852. 8pp, loose, edgeworn, else Very Good.

A scarce 1852 campaign speech. Stevens supports General Scott, the Whig candidate, over the Democrat Franklin Pierce. Charging Democrats with having brought the sectional issue to the forefront of the campaign, he insists that slavery is safe under Scott. But, he argues, "Will not General Pierce's success discourage the friends of constitutional liberty?" Pierce, the spokesman for pro-slavery expansionists, will seek slavery's primacy in the nation. In this prediction Stevens was correct.
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