Thomas Harney scrapbook, 1832-1870.

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Thomas Harney scrapbook, 1832-1870.

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Thomas Harney's scrapbook consists almost exclusively of newspaper clippings of his political writings between 1832 and 1870. The few clippings not authored by Harney always concern or mention him. The newspapers in which his writings appeared were published in Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, New York, and Connecticut. Subjects include the tariff, nullification, states' rights, Mississippi's reaction to abolitionist agitation, proslavery thought, the presidential contests of 1840 and 1844, Mississippi's repudiation of its bonded debt, improvements on the Mississippi River, Missouri politics, opposition to the Free Soil Movement, the expansion of slavery, Senators Henry S. Foote and John A. Quitman, the secession crisis, Lincoln and the Civil War, Reconstruction, and a tour of Virginia and North Carolina in 1865. Loose clippings are also included. Two pamphlets had been unbound and lain into the scrapbook: John A. Quitman, Thomas Harney, et al., "Address to the People of Mississippi by the Committee appointed by the States Rights' Convention, assembled at Jackson, May 21, 1834" (Jackson: C.C. Mayson, 1834) and Thomas Harney, "Report of the Minority of the Select Committee on the Union Bank Bonds, to the Mississippi Legislature, presented February, 1842" (Jackson: Price & Fall, 1842). Two manuscripts written by Harney accompany the scrapbook: "Secession - Consolidation: What are they?," a defense of secession written at St. Louis in August 1861, and a letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant written at Litchfield in April 1868 defending his own course of non-action during the war.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Foote, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1804-1880

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Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858

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Harney, Thomas, 1802-1870

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Lawyer, of St. Louis, Mo.; b. in Camden County, N.C.; attended Columbia College in Washington, D.C., and then went to Tennessee, studying law with Judge Rucks and after admission to the bar, worked in the office of James K. Polk. While there formed acquaintance of Stonewall Jackson; later moved to Mississippi and then to St. Louis; married a woman from Connecticut and established a summer residence in Litchfield, spending summers there for the rest of his life. From the description o...