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Box 12

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Alex[ander] Galt, Norfolk, to Thomas Ritchie, Lower Brandon, 1851 April 3

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 728
Identifier: id114118
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents

Congressional defeat of Ritchie's private relief bill; Ritchie's retirement from the Union; "strict construction" of the Constitution as "the great safeguard of the South"; slavery question and internal improvement schemes held as threats to the South. 2 pp. ALS,

Dates: 1851 April 3