Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 24

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SENDING NEBRASKA SPEECHES ON EVE OF KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT SUMNER, CHARLES. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, sending copies of speeches on the subject of Nebraska [not present]. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. "Senate Chamber" [Washington], 4 May 1854
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"I have not felt able to subscribe for all the speeches pro and con on the Neb[raska] wickedness, & of those that I did subscribe for, most of my copies have been ably distributed.
"Agreeably to your request, I send you copies of such as I have."
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, thereby repealing the Missouri Compromise (which prohibited slavery in the area occupied by both territories), resulting in violent confrontations there between activists for and against slavery.