UPHAM, CHARLES WENTWORTH

Mr. Upham's Speech on the Extension of Slavery. Together with the Ordinance of 1787. 40 pages. 8vo, original letter-press wrappers, stitched. Salem: Tri-Weekly Gazette, 1849 FIRST EDITION. The Ordinance of 1787 addressed the division of slave and non-slave states. However, Article 6 of the Ordinance made it legal to reclaim slaves from non-slave states, exactly as in the later Fugitive Slave Act.