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- GLC#
- GLC00837
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 1860
- Author/Creator
- Ferrill, Julius A., ?-1861
- Title
- [Resolutions of the Southern Rights Vigilance Club]
- Place Written
- Savannah, Georgia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Lincoln
Signed by Ferrill with over 25 others. Concerns their opposition to Abraham Lincoln and abolitionism. Resolves to "resist and prevent" Lincoln's inauguration (if elected), to offer their services to any seceding state, to resist anyone who would take office in Savannah under a Lincoln administration, and to join any organization dedicated to "protecting Slave property in the territories." Legal folio with six blank sheets.
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