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very attractive sepia ink inscription
Translated out of the Original Greek
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1860 JAMES HARLAN. Shall the Territories be Africanized? Inscribed Abolitionist Charles Sumner. Leather presented here completeNot offered at auction since 1964, a very scarce example from one of the leading men among the non abolitionist wing of the new Republican Party. Harlan, Representative of the State of Iowa, was opposed to slavery, but also opposed to black expansion into the territories of the West, whether as slave of free. In the present address, he expresses the view that the new territories are "only for the white race." This anti slavery and anti black sentiment