Monroe, James, 1758-1831 to George Hay

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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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