"The Clayton Bulwer Treaty" -- Speeches of Senator Douglas in reply to Senators Clayton and Butler. On the Central America Treaty. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 10 & 17, 1853.
The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. Disputes between the United States and Great Britain on the interpretation of the terms of the treaty led to the many extended debates in the U.S. Senate, such as that represented in this item.
This First Edition copy of "The Clayton Bulwer Treaty" -- Speeches of Senator Douglas in reply to Senators Clayton and Butler. On the Central America Treaty. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 10 & 17, 1853 was printed by Lemuel Towers in Washington in 1853. It is the record of two speeches of Senator Douglas to rebut speeches by Senators Clayton and Butler that attacked him for things he presumably said during and about the Senate debates on the Treaty and its implementation.
The speeches are contained in a 40-page single-column booklet, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches. The first speech is on pages 3 to 23, with second speech on pages 25 to 39. The pages are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read. Several pages are unopened. The booklet was string bound, but only the remains of the string still exist, with the result that pages, or sets of pages, can be separated from the booklet. The overall condition of the item is good.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the title page of the booklet and the first page of each of the two speeches.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short of stature but was considered by many a "giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation. Douglas dominated the Senate in the 1850s. He was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues. However, in 1854 he reopened the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which was known as "popular sovereignty"). The protest movement against this became the Republican Party. [Wikipedia]
The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. Disputes between the United States and Great Britain on the interpretation of the terms of the treaty led to the many extended debates in the U.S. Senate, such as that represented in this item.
This First Edition copy of "The Clayton Bulwer Treaty" -- Speeches of Senator Douglas in reply to Senators Clayton and Butler. On the Central America Treaty. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 10 & 17, 1853 was printed by Lemuel Towers in Washington in 1853. It is the record of two speeches of Senator Douglas to rebut speeches by Senators Clayton and Butler that attacked him for things he presumably said during and about the Senate debates on the Treaty and its implementation.
The speeches are contained in a 40-page single-column booklet, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches. The first speech is on pages 3 to 23, with second speech on pages 25 to 39. The pages are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read. Several pages are unopened. The booklet was string bound, but only the remains of the string still exist, with the result that pages, or sets of pages, can be separated from the booklet. The overall condition of the item is good.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the title page of the booklet and the first page of each of the two speeches.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short of stature but was considered by many a "giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation. Douglas dominated the Senate in the 1850s. He was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues. However, in 1854 he reopened the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which was known as "popular sovereignty"). The protest movement against this became the Republican Party. [Wikipedia]
The Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. Disputes between the United States and Great Britain on the interpretation of the terms of the treaty led to the many extended debates in the U.S. Senate, such as that represented in this item.
This First Edition copy of "The Clayton Bulwer Treaty" -- Speeches of Senator Douglas in reply to Senators Clayton and Butler. On the Central America Treaty. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 10 & 17, 1853 was printed by Lemuel Towers in Washington in 1853. It is the record of two speeches of Senator Douglas to rebut speeches by Senators Clayton and Butler that attacked him for things he presumably said during and about the Senate debates on the Treaty and its implementation.
The speeches are contained in a 40-page single-column booklet, without covers, that measures approximately 5 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches. The first speech is on pages 3 to 23, with second speech on pages 25 to 39. The pages are tanned, but the text is clear and easily read. Several pages are unopened. The booklet was string bound, but only the remains of the string still exist, with the result that pages, or sets of pages, can be separated from the booklet. The overall condition of the item is good.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the title page of the booklet and the first page of each of the two speeches.
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short of stature but was considered by many a "giant" in politics. Douglas was well-known as a resourceful party leader, and an adroit, ready, skillful tactician in debate and passage of legislation. Douglas dominated the Senate in the 1850s. He was largely responsible for the Compromise of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues. However, in 1854 he reopened the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which was known as "popular sovereignty"). The protest movement against this became the Republican Party. [Wikipedia]