THE ISSUE FAIRLY PRESENTED. THE SENATE BILL FOR THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS AS A STATE. DEMOCRACY, LAW, ORDER, AND THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORY, AGAINST BLACK REPUBLICANISM, USURPATION, REVOLUTION, ANARCHY, AND THE WILL OF A MEAGRE MINORITY. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
Washington: 1856. 30, [2 blank] pp. Disbound, else Very Good.
This campaign document charges Republicans with stirring up "wild excitement" in Kansas.
Democrats refuse "to undertake to determine why the God of nature made the African inferior to the white man; or why He permitted England to fasten the institution of slavery upon the colonies against their repeated and earnest remonstrances. Nor can we tell what Heaven in its wisdom may intend to work out of the relations of master and slave..."
This item supports Pierce Administration policies in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle, and urges the decisive defeat of Republicans.
FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35271. Item #40839
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