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Battle of Palo Alto by Carl Nebel

One of 12 in a series, Carl Nebel depicted the war that occurred at Palo Alto, which immediately followed the Thornton Affair in which Lieutenant…

APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE:RECOVERY OF FUGITIVES FROM LABOR - SPEECH OF MR. BUTLER OF SOUTH CAROLINAIn the Senate of the United States, January 24, 1850

Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, a close friend and political ally to James Murray Mason, spoke on Jan. 24th in support of the Fugitive Slave…

Comments of Hon. James M. Mason from January 8th, 1850Debates on the Vermont Resolutions of 1850, with a response from Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire

James Murray Mason commented on the Vermont Resolutions, casting opproborium on the notion that any state of the Union should refer to an institution…

Comments of Senator James Murray Mason on the Admission of California into the Federal UnionDelivered in the Senate of the United States, August 1st, 1850. 

While speaking in opposition to the Admission of California into the Union as a Free State, Mason commented on the resolve of the slaveholding south…

Comments on the Senate Floor: Sen. Mason of VirginiaDelivered in the United States Senate, January 23rd 1860. 

On Jan. 23rd 1860, James Murray Mason made a few remarks in defense Slavery, stating that it "ennobled both races."

December 14th, 1859Resolution to form Senate Committee to Investigate the Harper's Ferry Invasion

Transcriptions of the floor minutes in which the Senate debated and deliberated on a resolution, submitted by Senator James Mason of Virginia, to form…

James Murray Mason: Report of the Select Committee investigating the late Harper's Ferry InvasionDelivered on the floor of the Senate, June 15th 1860. 

On June 15th, 1860, Mason read the report of the Senate Select Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion. While the material facts of the invasion was…

January 4th, 1850: Motions to introduce Bills for consideration by the Senate

On January 4th, 1850, James Mason rose to introduce the bill that would eventually become the Fugitive Slave Act.

Richmond enquirer. [Volume LVL-Number 43], October 28, 1859, SEMI-WEEKLY-EDITIONLETTER FROM SENATOR MASONand Cardinal Democratic Principles on the Slavery Question

A firsthand account of the aftermath of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, written by James Murray Mason himself to an unnamed newspaper editor. The…

Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky: Report of the Committee of ThirteenDelivered in the Senate, May 8th 1850.with a response from Senator James Mason of Virginia.

On January 29th, 1850, Henry Clay rose to introduce a series of measures intended to resolve the divisive “slavery question” once and for all. A…