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- GLC#
- GLC05339.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 14, 1860
- Author/Creator
- Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Natchez, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Discusses impending trouble between the North and South. Remarks that "the South presents a more united front" than during any other period. Comments extensively on states' rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. Discusses some politicians' aim to break down the Democratic Party, attesting that such men "have no more sympathy for the negro- & no more hatred for slavery, than I have..." Criticizes Northerners for interfering with the issue of slavery. Notes a decline in the price of sugar and molasses. Requests numerous quantities of champagne.
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