E.W. Webster incoming correspondence, 1860-1867.

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Webster, E.W. E.W. Webster incoming correspondence, 1860-1867.

E.W. Webster incoming correspondence, 1860-1867.

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Letters to E.W. Webster, a buggy manufacturer of Farmington, Connecticut, from colleagues or agents in Georgia. A letter from W.W. Woodruff & Co. of Atlanta, dated 1860 November 14, discussed the spirit of secession and complained about the passage of a law levying a 25% tax on all goods shipped to New England. Later that month, Woodruff described the economic crisis in the South and urged Connecticut men to tell the Governor and the legislature to repeal the legislation passed against the Fugitive Slave Law. William Isles wrote from Midway, Kentucky, 1861 August 21, lamenting the effects of war on business and the animosity aroused even in one's own household.

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