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- GLC#
- GLC03656
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 9, 1820
- Author/Creator
- Monroe, James, 1758-1831
- Title
- to George Hay
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
President Monroe writes to Hay, his son-in-law. Monroe discusses a recent political plan (possibly the Missouri Compromise), stating "My own opinion always has been that the union cannot be shaken, tho I greatly lament that a question like the present, in which its extremities are so differently circumstanc'd, and the one so badly inform'd of the condition of the other; a question too so well calculated to enlist the feelings of the one against the other, should have been found practicable in our system." In a note following the signature, Monroe notes "my communications are in profound confidence."
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