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- GLC#
- GLC01946.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 11 May 1828
- Author/Creator
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Title
- to James William Paige
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address ; Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Informs his brother-in-law of a debate in the Senate regarding the 1828 Tariff Bill that proposed to tax certain raw and manufactured materials including molasses and hemp. States that due to disagreements with Southern Senators, several North Eastern Senators who would normally be opposed to the bill might go "against their first opinions" and support the bill, seeing "who can bear a molasses tax longest." Worries that the Bill will get lost, as only thirteen days remain in the session. Advises Paige to "calculate ... the Bill will pass." Marked private.
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