Speech of Hon. John M. Read

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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John M. Read: In Favor of Free Kansas, Free White Labor, and of Fremont and Dayton, at the Eighth Ward Mass Meeting, Held in the Assembly Buildings, on Tuesday Evening, September 30, 1856 By the purchase of Louisiana we had acquired a claim to what was called Texas, and our western boundary in that quarter, between us and Spain, was unsettled and undefined. Spain owned the Floridas, which, by a resolution and acts passed in secret session in 1811 and 1812, but not published until 1818, Congress had determined should not pass into any other hands than our own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.