ASKING DANIEL WEBSTER TO PERSUADE CONGRESS TO REPEAL A PUNITIVE ACT AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA, passed a the time of the secession threat in 1832, in an autograph letter to Webster, signed December 24, 1833 from Wheeling and addressed by him on the verso of an integral leaf
4to. One-page, approximately 225 words, in part: “Mr. Calhoun’s resolution to repeal the Monroe bill of last winter, will again give rise to a discussion of the powers of the general government. Altho’ the attitude assumed by South Carolina fully justified the enactment of the law that was passed, yet..... More