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Letter from Andrew Barry Moore in Marion, Alabama, to Bolling Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.

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In the letter Moore discusses public sentiment over states' rights violations by the United States Congress: "I trust that public meetings throughout the state, will be held, for the purpose of enlightening the masses, and causing them to understand, and properly, to appreciate the wrongs that have been done them, by an unprincipled majority, in Congress...I think I may safely say, that 99 out of every hundred of our people are for any sort of resistance, short of secession, at this time, & if any further aggressions are perpetrated on our rights, they will go for secession, or any other remedy, that the South, or any state in the South may propose." He also mentions the Fugitive Slave Bill, the upcoming convention of delegates from pro-slavery states in Nashville, Tennessee, and local political elections. At the time the letter was written, Hall was serving in the Alabama House of Representatives; he served there from 1849 to 1852 and from 1853 to 1854. A transcript of the letter is included.
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1850 November 15 1850 11 15
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Compromise Of 1850
  4. Government
  5. Hall, Bolling, 1813 1897
  6. Legislation
  7. Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807 1873
  8. Politics And Government
  9. Secession
  10. Slaver
  11. Slavery
  12. Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.)
  13. Southern States
  14. States' Rights (American Politics)
  15. To 1865
  16. United States
  17. United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850)

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