- unitid
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{"value"=>"278770", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 9540", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"May 6, 1783", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1783-05-06"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to William Cabell, Richmond"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 3 pp. 8o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Necessity of a wise and virtuous course on the part of the Assembly, in order to restore public confidence; he was driven out of the Assembly by their bad measures, tending to bring the Legislature into contempt; he learns that the present Assembly intends to dissolve itself, to make way for a general convention to remodel the Constitution; this would be improper, without a requisition from the people, and untimely; the people here fear that the Assembly may pass laws infringing the Articles of Peace; Great Britain might then make reprisals without much danger of offending the European powers or even the other American States; his son and William Allison have erected a snuff manufactory; they have petitioned the Assembly for a protective duty."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Mason, George (Gunston-Hall, Fair-fax County, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1783
- date_inclusive_end
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1783
- keydate
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1783-05-06
- date_start
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1783-05-06
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1783-05-06