Georgia,
Jackson County, [Jan. 7,1845.]
Sir: I have one request to make of you that is
this there are some negroes property to be Transported into some free State in
the United State thare are maney opinions about it some say that it cannot be
dun on a count that thare is no state that will receive them this question you
can decide. I dont want you to make this a publick question in the House but to
talk with the Members of Illinois or Indiana as they are the two nearest free
States to me I am told that their States will not receive Negroes from a slave
holding state and that they have past a law to that effect and a penalty if any
is carried there this point you can decide . . . That question is one of
importance to me and this business if actd on will stop the mouths of many I
sincerely request of you for me Will
confer special favour.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual Report of
the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The Correspondence
of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p. 60
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