Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR.) Remarks of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on Kansas, Utah, and the Dred Scott Decision. 15 pages. 8vo, disbound, original self-wrappers; unopened, moderate foxing. Chicago, 1857

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first edition. Douglas's first public expression of his views on the Dred Scott decision, in which he insisted that "the whole principle of Popular Sovereignty and self-government is sustained and firmly established by the authority of this decision." Byrd, Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, 250.