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Woodward, Thomas Green, 1789-1850 Connecticut herald. [Vol. 28, no. 41 (August 30, 1831)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08681 Author/Creator: Woodward, Thomas Green, 1789-1850 Place Written: New Haven, Connecticut Type: Newspaper Date: 30 August 1831 Pagination: 4 p. : newspaper Height: 53.5 cm, Width: 39.7 cm Order a Copy

Includes excerpts of letters regarding Nat Turner's Rebellion, claiming that more than 58 whites have been killed, and that the uprising consists of between 150 and 300 participants armed with "fowling-pieces, clubs, &c." A list of white victims is included. A commentary opines that northern enouragement of such revolts can do no good and will only "render one portion of our country a vast aceldma of blood." Also: a lengthy statement by Vice President John C. Calhoun regarding "the Tariff" and its division of the United States into two separate sections, North and South.

Woodward, Thomas Green, 1789-1850
Calhoun, John Caldwell, 1782-1850
Turner, Nat, 1800-1831

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