Letter from Joseph L. Tillinghast to Thomas Howland

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Title:
Letter from Joseph L. Tillinghast to Thomas Howland
Description:
Congressman responds Judge White and the "Independent Treasury project" under Andrew Jackson which "directly tends to make the Treasury & the Executive independent of the people and the laws. & to separated the Government from all sympathy with the community & its concerns. Asks Howland's views on the use of bloodhounds against Florida Seminoles, authorized by the Secretary of War "for indication & chase, but not for slaughter... It is humiliating & meancholy in many points of view that this enlightened & we had hoped Christian Republic, this 'asylum of oppressed humanity,' as Mr. Jefferson called it, should in our day be reduced & abased to such ferocious expedients as attracted to the greedy Spaniards of the New World the abhorence & approbation of mankind."
Creator:
Tillinghast, Joseph L. (Joseph Leonard), 1791-1844
Addressee:
Howland, Thomas, 1764-1845
Date:
February 19, 1840
Format:
Documents
Genre:
Letters (correspondence)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Howland Family Papers
Subjects:
Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842
United States--Politics and government--1837--1841
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Places:
United States
Extent:
3 p. : 25 cm.
Link to Item:
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Place of origin:
Washington (D.C.)
Identifier:
mums923-b01-f06-i003