1848 THOMAS S. BOCOCK. Pro-Slavery Speech by Speaker of the House in the Confederacy. AmericanaA 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
Manning & Loring
Many Uses of the Cocoa-Nut [Coconut]
And what we learn in Ye Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern certainly wasn't all negative
The Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted
The Effects of Faith
Report of the Anti-Slavery Society
Weekly Observance of the Lord's Supper
and was then persuaded by the clergyman
Smith was charged with breaking three tenants of the Baptist tradition
He continued pastor the same flock until 1818
Declaration of Independence
for the Government of the Army of the Confederate States of America