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- GLC#
- GLC00605
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 22, 1856
- Author/Creator
- Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
- Title
- to Jeremiah S. Black
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Stanton compliments Black on the address on religious liberty that he gave before the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College. He argues with some points of the essay concerning the judgment of history on William Penn, Oliver Cromwell, and St. Francis Xavier. He asks in his postscript, "Who is it that believes in Maria Monk?" (a fictitious woman created by anti-Catholic propagandists). Date from docket. At the time of this letter Black was a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He became Attorney General of the United States under James Buchanan, and in that position moved Stanton into a position with the national government.
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