Speeches of the Fifties - Hamlin, Everett, Clayton, Sumner (Spine title).

Various places and publishers, 1850s.

A gathering of 25 speeches, totaling several hundred pages, delivered in the 1850s by luminaries such as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, and Stephen Douglas, on boundary issues, American colonization, a transcontinental railroad, protectionism, the Mexican War, the Monroe Doctrine, the Fugitive Slave Bill, an interesting 8-pager on the duel between Rep Graves of Kentucky and Rep Cilley of Maine (which resulted in Cilley's death) chronicling the remorseless progress of the conflict, and three on North American fisheries. Bound in green cloth with spine label. Ex-libris the Bath Maritime Museum, with call numbers on backstrip in white ink and no other markings.