Excerpt from The Power of Congress Over the Territories: Speech of Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, in Senate of the United States, March 13 and 14, 1850 Mr. Foote. Do I understand the Senator from New York as saying Mr. Jefferson asserted that the northern Democracy was the natural ally of slavery? He never said such a word. Mr. Cass. I will not touch upon that ques tion; but [will ask the Senator from New York in relation to another point - and that is, if he meant it in the sense which Mr. Jefferson, or whoever may have used it, intended? The one was ia tended as a commendation for their attachment to constitutional principles - the other as a slur upon a great party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.