The Power of Congress Over the Territories: Speech of Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, in Senate of the United States, March 13 and 14, 1850, on the Compromise Resolutions of Mr. Bell, of Tennessee, and the Proposition to Refer Them to a Select Committee |
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