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An Address Delivered in Calvary Church

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1861 J. S. MILLSON OF VIRGINIA. Virginia Representative Urges Congress to Guarantee Southern Slavery to Avoid War. Ephemera Much that never could beA fascinating document in which John S. Millson, Representative to Congress from the State of Virginia, urges Congress to consider that it is not the "expansion" of slavery that the South was willing to secede over, but the fear that expansion of free states would be leveraged to abolish even Southern slavery. And that if Congress would, in light of the questionable Constitutional perspective on slavery, simply enshrine the right to chattel slavery as