To the public ... Due West, S.C. ; 1850 Oct. 1 [broadside].

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To the public ... Due West, S.C. ; 1850 Oct. 1 [broadside].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36800295

Printed broadside to "friends of Erskine College" and others, in which Grier defends his views on slavery after Grier's slave, George, was heard preaching in favor of abolition while hired out as a carpenter. Broadside published during S.C.'s first secession crisis; includes correspondence, transcripts from George's trial, and excerpts from the newspaper, Abbeville Banner, 27 July-Sept. 1850; other men involved in the controversy include Lemuel Reid, William Barr, James Fair, and J. Foster Marshall.

1 sheet ; 65 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Grier, Robert Calvin, 1817-1871.

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Presbyterian minister and president of Erskine College in Due West (Abbeville District, S.C.). From the description of To the public ... Due West, S.C. ; 1850 Oct. 1 [broadside]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 36800295 ...

Marshall, Jehu Foster, 1817-1862.

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Jehu (John) Foster Marshall was a lawyer and owner of plantations (Santuck and Long Cane) in Abbeville District, S.C., and Marion County, Florida; member of S.C. Senate, 1848-1861; Colonel, 1st Regiment Rifles, South Carolina Volunteers; Captain of Palmetto Regiment, Mexican War, 1846-1848; killed Aug. 1862, at Second Battle of Bull Run during Civil War; son of Samuel Marshall (1787-1861) and Eliza Clopton Foster Marshall; father of John Quitman (1849-1908), Samuel Fair Marshall, Jehu Foster Mar...

Reid, Lemuel, 1818-1867.

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