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as delegates to the legislatures of the southern states, to solicit co-operation in the efforts to call a southern convention.[1]
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Map V.—Popular vote on state convention, 1832
Again the city campaign in Charleston was to serve as a curtain-raiser for the state election contest, and both sides made great efforts to win.
- ↑ Courier, September 15, 1832; Mountaineer, September 22. The men appointed were Judge Daniel E. Huger and Joel R. Poinsett, to go to Virginia and North Carolina; Governor Middleton and Mr. King, to go to Tennessee; Judges Joseph Johnson and J. B. O'Neall, to go to Georgia; Judge William Smith, Judge J. P. Richardson, and Mr. Creswell, to go to Alabama and Mississippi.