John Tyler, Jr., Selma, Alabama, to Joseph Brown, Governor of Georgia, [Milledgeville, Ga.], 1864
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Read his address to the legislature of Georgia and greatly admires it; old Washington politicians who control the Confederate government are not respecting the rights of citizens and property; fears they are trying to set up a monarchy with the help of West Point graduates; left the Bureau of War because did not like the way the administration was running the war of the government; suspension of writ of habeas corpus more odious than martial law; glad he struck a blow for civil liberties. 3 pp. ALS.
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