Letter, Signed. To Rev. William H. Milburn, Regretting that he is sick and cannot give lecture

by Reverdy Johnson, Senator

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1 page. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine. Item #251237 Johnson was Senator from Maryland 1845-49, Attorney-General 1849-1850. He represented the slave-owning defendant in case Dred Scott v. Sandford. He was personally opposed to slavery and helped keep Maryland in the Union. In 1868 he was appointed minister to the United Kingdom and soon after his arrival in England negotiated the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty for the settlement of disputes arising out of the

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