Dutee Jerauld Pearce papers, 1828 Jan. 13-1832 Feb. 7.

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Dutee Jerauld Pearce papers, 1828 Jan. 13-1832 Feb. 7.

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Two letters from D.J. Pearce, in Washington, D.C., to Joseph Leonard Tillinghast, in Rhode Island; letter, 13 Jan. 1828, re affairs in Congress, [James] Hamilton's resolutions on the unconstitutionality of the Sedition Act, and reelection prospects for [John Quincy] Adams in the coming election Letter, 7 Feb. 1832, Washington, re Pearce's favorable impression of J[ohn] C[aldwell] Calhoun after a discussion between Calhoun and John Whipple, "I am convinced that my former suspicisions were correct, that [George] McDuffie and [Robert Young] Hayne are indebted to Mr. C[alhoun] for all the arguments employed by them, in their speeches for the last four years....His clearness of conceptions and algebraic head give him an advantage over most of the great men in the country."

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