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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Letter to B. B. Minor, May 3, 1851

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Letters regarding various aspects of Clay’s political career, including his opposition towards Andrew Jackson and Jacksonism and details of his race against Zachary Taylor to be nominated for Whig Presidential candidate. The letters express opinions on South Carolina’s 1830 threat of secession, the Bank of the U.S., candidates for the vice presidency, the temperance movement, and slavery. Though Clay writes a letter lauding the laws which suppress the African slave trade, in another he...
Dates: May 3, 1851