11. Orin Fowler, Slavery in California and New Mexico: Speech of Mr. Orin Fowler, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, March 11, 1850, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the President’s Message Communicating the Constitution of California ([Washington, DC]: Buell & Blanchard, [1850?]). (15 p.)


Speech applauding the anti-slavery provisions of the constitution proposed for California’s statehood. (The collection has another copy of this speech in volume 61 [no. 11].)