Harrison Gray Otis’s Speech of Mr. Otis, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri: delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1820. [Washington, D.C., circa 1820].
![Harrison Gray Otis’s Speech of Mr. Otis, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri: delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1820. [Washington, D.C., circa 1820].](https://sca.bowdoin.edu/state-of-maine/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/nggallery/state-of-maine/otis-speech.jpg "Harrison Gray Otis’s Speech of Mr. Otis, on the restriction of slavery in Missouri: delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1820. [Washington, D.C., circa 1820].")
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Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) was an important leader of the Federalists’ political party and in 1820 he was serving as a United States Senator from Massachusetts. In the Senate debate over the Missouri Compromise, he opposed the extension of slavery, but he was not an active abolitionist.