Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 to David Hubbard

GLC02320.01

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
15 June 1838
Author/Creator
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Title
to David Hubbard
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Written by Calhoun in blue ink, concerning his support for (and failure to get) a rail route from Georgia to the west, instead of through Ohio. He concludes that southern rail routes will unite the slaveholding states and change commercial and political affairs of the Union.

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