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Speech of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland

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Title: Speech of William Cost Johnson, of Maryland, on the Subject of the Rejection of Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery; With Supplemental Remarks, in Reply to Certain Charges Against General Harrison
Author: Johnson, William Cost
Description: 68 pp. (8vo), disbound.William Cost Johnson was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from 1837 to 1843. In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia (Twenty-sixth Congress), and as a member of the Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-seventh Congress). After Congress, he continued the practice of his profession until his death in Washington, D.C.
Heading: Place Published: Washington
Publisher: Gales and Seaton
Date Published: 1840