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Letter from John E. Hall at the East Alabama Male College in Auburn, Alabama, to his father, Bolling Hall.

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In the letter John mentions seeing Stephen Douglas pass through town on his way to Montgomery, Alabama, and he discusses the possibility of secession after the presidential election: "The south seems determined to resist in case of Lincolns [sic] success. Clubs of minute men are being formed daily all through the south, whose duty it will be to aid any state to secede." He also describes the activities and trial of an abolitionist who was recently in Lee County: "The citizens of this place had up an abolitionist last week charged with burning Opelika and tampering with slaves. They tried him, condemned him and then turned him loose. I never heard of such a thing in my life. I suppose the way of it was, that those who were on the committee had to stay up during the night to carry on the trial which they did not like and so turned him loose after he was found guilty. The citizens were very much enraged and tried to catch him again. He had made an effort to burn Auburn. I think he ought to have been hung."
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1860 November 6 1860 11 06
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Auburn (Ala.)
  5. Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813 1861
  6. Education, Higher
  7. Government
  8. Hall, Bolling, 1813 1897
  9. Hall, John E. (John Elmore), 1842 1882
  10. Lee County (Ala.)
  11. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
  12. Political Campaigns
  13. Politics And Government
  14. Secession
  15. Slaver
  16. Slavery
  17. Social Life And Customs
  18. Southern States
  19. To 1865
  20. United States

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