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Titles: Election Stock
Description: Review of positions taken by several key newspapers on the poor viability of the candidacy of Sen. Henry Clay and the swing to support Gen. Wm H. Harrison as the Whig candidate. States abolitionist resolution not to support candidate not in favor of immediate abolition of slavery. Suggests a conspiracy against the South.
Primary Source Publisher: Richmond Enquirer
Primary Source Publication Date: 9/6/1839
Subject Keywords: Other Keyword - Election
Other Keyword - Slavery
Other Person - Harrison, William Henry
Other Person - Van Buren, Martin
Other Keyword - Politics
Other Keyword - Abolition



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