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

APPENDIX TO THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE:

RECOVERY OF FUGITIVES FROM LABOR - SPEECH OF MR. BUTLER OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In the Senate of the United States, January 24, 1850

Senator Andrew P. Butler, Fugitive Slaves, United States Senate, Speech,

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 Act of 1850. This selection from the Appendix to the Congressional Globe contains the resolutions of the law as well as opening remarks from Senator Butler's speech on it. Butler, like Mason, was an acolyte of John C. Calhoun, in addition to being a staunch advocate of Slavery. He would go on to co-author the Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

Andrew Pickens Butler (1796-1857)

John C. Rives (1795-1864)

The Congressional Globe

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24, January, 1850

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