Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877 to Captain A. Harwood
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08302 Author/Creator: Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 01 May 1861 Pagination: Order a Copy
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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