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- GLC#
- GLC08302
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 01 May 1861
- Author/Creator
- Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877
- Title
- to Captain A. Harwood
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
On board USS Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay, re: on -board experiments with sponges and the ship's guns; attacking secession: "no country on earth can stand universal Suffrage and secession.... The idea, too, that with us, one owes a higher and holier allegiance to his state than to his country is enough to destroy nationality and patriotism, and to disqualify anyone from holding a Federal trust."
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