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- GLC#
- GLC02946
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 December 1838
- Author/Creator
- Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
- Title
- to John Brown Dillon
- Place Written
- North Bend, Ohio
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address ; Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
Harrison offers his opinion to Dillon, who is publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery: "our Union is a Union of Sovereign Independent States &... in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that instrument to the General Government it is retained by the States..." Argues that its omission from the Constitution leaves the slavery question up to individual states, not to the federal government. Emphasizes he is writing as a friend, not for publication. Includes a note written in pencil at the top of page one, pertaining to the purchase of this letter and signed by W. H. H. Terrell.
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