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Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885 to Alfred Edmund Burr

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02925.20 Author/Creator: Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 March 1860 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 24.75 cm, Width: 19.8 cm Order a Copy

Toombs, a United States Senator from Georgia, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "I consider your approaching election of the utmost importance to the Country. Your opponents are the enemies of the Constitution & when the Constitution perishes the Union will & ought to perish with it." Toombs was a U.S. congressman (1845-1852) and senator (1853-1860) from Georgia. During the Civil War he served as Confederate secretary of state and brigadier general in the Confederate army.

Burr, Alfred Edmund, 1815-1900
Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885

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