Excerpt from Speech of Charles Brown, of Pennsylvania, on Abolition and Slavery I know Mr. Adams did say what the gentleman asserts, that he was opposed to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia then; but I appeal to the memory of that man, if, while he said this, he did not on every occasion, and under all circumstances, through his scathing elo quence and votes, give his powerful aid to rol on, no matter who might be crushed by it, the ball of abolition agitation. 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.