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Box 3

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

[2-13-1861] Vance, Zebulon. To the citizens of the eighth Congressional district of North Carolina. Explaining that the Cotton States have “gladly seized upon the election of Lincoln as the occasion, rather than the cause for breaking up the Union”; they have labored “for disunion for thrity years, inflamed with magnificent and visionary conceptions of a great Southern Republic… to conquer and annex all the countries seated in the basin of the Gulf of Mexico” and Cuba as well. 7 pp. (Pm, # 54)

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates: 1823-1893