1848 THOMAS S. BOCOCK. Pro-Slavery Speech by Speaker of the House in the Confederacy. Americana The Effects of Faith

The Effects of Faith

Weekly Observance of the Lord's Supper

Many Uses of the Cocoa-Nut [Coconut]

and was then persuaded by the clergyman

1848 THOMAS S. BOCOCK. Pro-Slavery Speech by Speaker of the House in the Confederacy. Americana The Effects of FaithA rather scarce address delivered in the House of Representatives by Virginia slave holder, mouthpiece for the pro slavery Southern coalition, and later Speaker of the Confederate State House of Representatives, Thomas Bocock [1815 1891]. I suppose all we need to know about him and about the acidic speech is that when Democratic senator Preston Brooks of South Carolina began repeatedly beating Charles Sumner with a metal cane in the House because of