Letter, 1833 May 14, Greenville, S.C., to Daniel Webster, Boston.

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Letter, 1833 May 14, Greenville, S.C., to Daniel Webster, Boston.

Mr. Calhoun has not united the South against the Federal Government. The slave question might lead to a confederacy of slave-holding states. Appeals to the North not to interfere with the domestic policy of the South.

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