UNION AND FREEDOM, WITHOUT COMPROMISE. SPEECH OF MR. CHASE, OF OHIO, ON MR. CLAY'S COMPROMISE RESOLUTION. In Senate, March 26, 1850.

Washington, D.C.: Printed and for sale by Buell & Blanchard, 1850., 1850. Very good. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed self wraps. An uncut 19 inch high by 23-3/4 inch wide folded folio sheet containing 16 pages, including the covers. The top edge is slightly creased and there are a couple of minor spots of foxing. A near fine uncut pamphlet. An anti-slavery champion while serving in the Senate, Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1849 to 1855 and served as Ohio's Governor from 1856 to 1860. He was appointed as secretary of the Treasury by Abraham Lincoln, serving from 1861 to 1864 before being appointed to and serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1864 to 1873. He was elected to the Senate on the Free Soil Party ticket to bring pressure on Northern Democrats to force them to oppose the extension of slavery. An anti-slavery champion, he argued against the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Consisting of 5 separated bills passed by Congress in order to temporarily diffuse tensions between the slave and free states, the Compromise of 1850 was designed by Whig senator Henry Clay with Democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas to outline how to handle slavery in the territories acquired from the Mexican-American War, determining which would be free or slave states and strengthening the fugitive slave laws.…