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Letter from VA Governor Henry A. Wise

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Title: Autograph Letter, signed, as U.S. Congressman, by the future Virginia Governor who would authorize the execution of John Brown
Author: Wise, Henry A.
Description: Autograph Letter, signed. 1 pp.Wise writes Edwin Salter: "I have not a pamphlet copy of my speech on defalcations, or would transmit it with pleasure. Gales & Seaton's office may be able to furnish you with one." Wise had made a famous speech in Congress, denouncing the corrupt tax collector of New York City during the Van Buren Administration - and suggesting impeachment of the Secretary of the Treasury who appointed him. By the time Wise wrote this letter, four years later, his fellow Virginian John Tyler had succeeded to the Presidency and soon nominated Wise to be US ambassador to France; the Senate rejected the appointment but later confirmed his nomination as American diplomatic envoy to Brazil. A decade later, elected Governor of Virginia, Wise put his signature to the fateful death warrant of John Brown after the raid on Harper's Ferry. When the Civil War began, he entered the military service of the Confederacy, seeing action in North Carolina and Virginia and rising to the rank of Major General.
Heading: (Civil War)Place Published: Washington, D.C.
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Date Published: December 14, 1842