"Personal Explanation of the Hon. W. R. W. Cobb, of Alabama," an address delivered in the United States House of Representatives.

In his address Cobb insists that the slavery question, the central issue influencing the pending secession of the South, was not answered by the recent presidential election: "But gentlemen say they cannot do anything. They say that the edict went forth on the sixth day of November last; that t...

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