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Creator/Title
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874. To W. George Anderson, William Garvin John P. Morton and T. M. Sherley, Committee for a Statue of Henry Clay. Buffalo, N.Y., March 26, 1867. 3 pp. A.L.S. In : Pindell Collection.
Call No.
Mss. A P648 2
Content
Declining invitation to deliver the eulogy on the occasion of the inauguration of the statue of Henny Clay by Joel T. Hart at Louisville, Ky., May 16, 1867; should be gratified to meet the citizens of Louisville who received him hospitably thirteen years ago; expresses thanks for approbation of course he pursued during the rebellion; he thought that the country was verging + toward a mllitary despotism and feared that the suppression of the rebellion might cost the liberties of the country; the constitution is openly violated by Congress; wishes that Henry Clay could rise from the dead and arouse the nation to its danger.