Charleston [S. C.], Aug. 21st, ’47.
Dear Sir, * * * I wish the Southern Representatives would
consent to act together without regard to Whig or Democrat. The Wilmot Proviso
is paramount to all Party. We are in great danger. The North is resolved to
crush Slavery — are we equally in the South resolved at all hazards to defend
it? What say you for Benton's proposal to have a Northern President, without
regard to the Wilmot Proviso?
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* Congressman from South Carolina, 1839-1851.
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.
88
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