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Day Ten
29 June 1844
Quigles writes a similar letter to Secretary of State John C. Calhoun. Why did Quigles write to Calhoun? Was it because the President was on his honeymoon? Or that Calhoun, from South Carolina, was the leading slavocracy intellectual? Or was Tyler, the first person to become president not by election but by a previous president's death, not seen as a legitimate ruler? It probably didn't hurt to corral as many federal agents as possible. Ironically, even though the South fought the Civil War on the principle of "states' rights," the South often implored federal intervention in the capture of fugitive slaves.
Quigles' missive asks that the federal government order one of its ships, the Poinset, to join the hunt for Walker and the fugitives.
 
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