Speech of Hon. John Cadwalader, of Pennsylvania, on the Legislation of the United States Upon the Subject of Slavery in Their Territories Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1856 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John Cadwalader, of Pennsylvania, on the Legislation of the United States Upon the Subject of Slavery in Their Territories: Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1856

This territory lay wholly to the southward of the line of 36° 30' - the old Virginia boundary which, under the North Carolina charters of 16 and 1729, had' originally extended to the Pacific ocean, and would still have extended to that ocean if the treaties of. 1763 and 1783 had not limited our territory on the westward by the Mississippi.

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