Selections from the letters and speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina.
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New York :
J.F. Trow and Company, printers,
1866.
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| Series: | Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
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Table of Contents:
- State rights and free trade
- Speech on the justice of receiving petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
- Message to the Senate and House of representatives of the state of South Carolina, Nov. 28, 1843
- Message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of South Carolina, Nov. 26, 1844
- Letter to the Free church of Glasgow, on the subject of slavery
- Two letters on the subject of slavery in the United States, addressed to Thomas Clarkson, Esq
- An oration delivered before the two societies of the South Carolina College, on the fourth of December, 1849
- An oration on the life, character, and services of John Caldwell Calhoun, delivered on the 21st November, 1850, in Charleston, S.C., at the request of the city council
- Speech on the admission of Kansas, under the Lecompton constitution, delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 4, 1858
- Speech delivered at Barnwell C.H., S.C., October 29, 1858
- Speech on the relations of the states, delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1860.