- Author
- Hensel, W. U.
- Date of Publication
- 1911
conscientious belief
that this would settle the slavery agi-
tation and avert disunion.
His first Congressional declaration
on the institution of slavery was in
the course of a speech in the House
of Representatives April 22, 1826,when
in discussing the Panama mission, he
incidentally said:
"Permit me here, for