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- GLC#
- GLC06313.04.122-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 December 1821
- Author/Creator
- Sampson, Zabdiel, 1781-1828
- Title
- to Aaron Hobart
- Place Written
- Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket : free frank Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Indicates that he voted against a bankruptcy law when a member of Congress, describing such laws as "one of the great evils that always to be avoided." Also notes that he believes the people of Hobart's district would vote overwhelmingly against a system of bankruptcy laws. Also discusses the election of Philip Barbour as Speaker of the House, explaining that he considers "it a triumph of the republicans over the Clintonians, who I have ever considered and viewed as federalists in disguise."
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