- Collection
- Thaddeus Stevens Collection
- Title
- Letter from Amos Ellmaker to Thaddeus Stevens
- Object ID
- MG0115_P01_F002_In06
- Date Range
- 1850/07/16
MG0115 F002 In03 It02
Lancaster July 16 1850
D. Sir
Of all the plans reconciling the North and South, that of extending the Missouri Compromise line
to the Pacific, appears to me to be the worst.
It would cut off more than half of New Mexico; and almost half of California.
In theory it is plausible