Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2
CHAPTER XV.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. The Slavery Agitation--Early Secession Movements--Webster on Emancipation--His Idea of the Far West--Franklin Pierce's Position --The Foremost of Orators--Joseph Holt--King, of Alabama--The Buckshot War--Star Routes--Van Buren's Titles.