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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01946.67 Author/Creator: Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript letter Date: January 10, 1848 Pagination: 6 p. : Height: 28.5 cm, Width: 23.3 cm Order a Copy

An unknown author informs Webster that the "Government and Country are approaching a crisis." Reports that the United States will face great financial difficulty by the end of 1848. Complains of the financial strain placed on the United States caused by the Mexican War (1846-1848) and the Revenue Tariff of 1845. States that the market of the United States is deprived of food and predicts closures in French ports and changes in the British economic market. Complains about Secretary of the Treasury Robert J. Walker's Tariff of 1846 which moderately lowered many rates, but which many Northerners felt hurt Union manufacturing. Appeals to Webster to "uphold the great principles ... established by the adoption of the Constitution." Letter is marked as a copy.

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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