THE COMPROMISE MEASURES. SPEECH OF HON. SAM HOUSTON, OF TEXAS, IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, DEC. 22, 1851, ON THE RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING THE COMPROMISE MEASURE
1852 · [Washington
by Houston, Sam
[Washington, 1852. 8pp, untrimmed and uncut folded folio sheet. Lightly foxed; dusted at the outer margins. Two inner margin pinholes. Good+. Houston argues forcefully for the Compromise, upon which, during the votes, he occupied "no equivocal position...I am the only Senator now upon this floor that voted for every measure of the compromise." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 33195n. LCP 4981. (Inventory #: 21327)