ALS, 1850 August 12 : Saratoga, New York, to Charles A. Wickliffe.

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ALS, 1850 August 12 : Saratoga, New York, to Charles A. Wickliffe.

Tyler writes to his former Postmaster General on a matter concerning private property of Tyler's in Kentucky. He then turns to national matters, commenting on the Compromise of 1850: "The agitations of the country have given me great uneasiness. I fear great and permanent alienation of feeling between the sections -- Could we possibly have committed the blunder of leaving the slave question open in negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? It has always seemed to me to be a great omission ..."

3 3/4 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6826300

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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