1857 Signed CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER US NAVY SECRETARY TOUCEY TREASON

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CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE SLAVERY SYMPATHIZER NAVY SECRETARY TOUCEY LETTER SIGNED VF. Heres a Letter Signed by Two Notable Americans; A Civil War Era Traitor Statesman, and a Union Navy Commodore ISAAC TOUCEY Pro-Slavery American Statesman and Civil War Confederate Sympathizer (1792 1869) CIVIL WAR ERA PRO-SLAVERY and STATE RIGHTS US DEMOCRATIC PARTY SENATOR 1852-1857, 23rdUS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT BUCHANAN 1857-1861, and CHARGED WITH TREASON AGAINST THE US, 20thATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER PRESIDENT POLK 1848-1849, 33rdGOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT 1846-1847 US CONGRESSMAN FROM CT 1835-1839! Toucey was a moderate Northerner who shared President Buchanan's views in the sectional controversies of the day.President Abraham Lincoln's election to the Presidency laid him open to the charge of sympathy with the Confederate cause, if not cooperation, with those that were plotting for the overthrow of the Federal Government! Right before the Civil War, he was charged with dispatching some of the US's best ships on long cruises to distant seas! HERE'S A RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY ISAAC TOUCEY ON NAVY DEPARTMENT LETTERHEAD , 1p., DATED JUNE 24th1857 TO LT. JOHN C. FEBIGET, U.S. NAVY COAST SURVEY AT NEW YORK, DETACHING HIM FROM THE COMMAND OF THE COAST SURVEY SCHOONER ARAGO and ORDERING HIM TO REPORT TO CAPTAIN DORNIN AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA FOR DUTY ON BOARD THE U.S.S. COOK. THE VERSO OF THE DOCUMENT IS ALSO ENDORSED BY LAWRENCE KEARNEY