Letter, 1851 June 2, Nashville, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

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Letter, 1851 June 2, Nashville, to Daniel Webster, Washington.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2864688

Speaks of Mexico and of the annexation of Texas. Has plan for sending blacks West, into the tropics and swamps where they would survive better than whites.

6 p. on 2 fold leaves. 25 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Catron, John, approximately 1786-1865

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