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“The proofs were so strong against him […] that he was eventually compelled to leave the country”: 1849 Philadelphia Family Letter Containing a Remarkable Secret Marriage Scandal Narrative from Ireland, Gold Rush Commentary, and Reflections on Slavery, the Union, and “the sympathies of Christendom […] in favour of the black republic sentiment.”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 20, 1849. Eight page letter measuring 8 x 10 pages, appx. 1800 words. A lengthy and literary 1849 family letter from Robert Lind Philadelphia to his brother, discussing enslavement and the growing sectional crisis, California Gold Rush migration, and Presbyterian intellectual life, and including a remarkable inherited.....