Subscription list for printing of Emerson Etheridge speech : manuscript, 1856.

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Subscription list for printing of Emerson Etheridge speech : manuscript, 1856.

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List to obtain subscribers for the printing by the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C., of the speech delivered by Representative Emerson Etheridge, originally titled: Assault on Mr. Sumner. Speech of Hon. E. Etheridge of Tennessee, in the House of Representatives, July 12, 1856. Printed version later titled: The assault by Mr. Brooks on Mr. Sumner ... Speech concerns Rep. Preston S. Brooks' assault on Rep. Charles Sumner and Etheridge's attempt to act as peacemaker as he expounds on the issues of whether the House had jurisdiction to expel and/or censure Brooks.

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