Letter to W[illiam] C[rosby] Dawson and R[obert] [Augustus] Toombs. Washington, DC. 1854 Apr. 26.

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Letter to W[illiam] C[rosby] Dawson and R[obert] [Augustus] Toombs. Washington, DC. 1854 Apr. 26.

Asking if either of them had stated "Iowa will be a slave state in fifteen years" and if not who did.

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