Lot 92
In 1849, A Concerned Constituent Writes His State Representative on Radical Pro-Slavery Legislation in Georgia. John L. Bird. Autograph letter signed, 4 pages, recto & verso, 10 x 8", Crawfordville, Georgia, November 15, 1849. To Colonel Linton Stephens of Milledgville, Georgia. Final page of text doubles as address leaf. Folded for mailing, with some perforations at the intersection of horizontal and vertical folds, still very good. A constituent writes his state legislator, brother of the future Confederate Vice President, Alexander Stephens, concerning Georgia and the "Peculiar Institution" of slavery. He mentions Lucius Gartrell, a radical pro-slavery leader, and Robert Toombs, a slaveholding plantation owner with a more moderate stance. Twelve years later, both men were ardent segregationists, with Gartrell serving during the Civil War as a Confederate General who made a futile attempt to halt Sherman's march through Georgia, and Toombs vacating his seat in the U.S. Senate in Washington to become Jefferson Davis' first Confederate Secretary of State. Estimated Value $250 - 500
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