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Nutt, Rush, 1781-1837

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Rush Nutt speech

 Collection — Box BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16770
Content Description This collection contains a speech by Dr. Rush Nutt delivered in Greenville, Mississippi Territory on March 4, 1809. Nutt celebrates the just-concluded Jefferson Administration and commemorates the inauguration of James Madison. The address, fifteen and one-half pages in length, celebrates the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson and attacks the preceding Adams administration which Nutt believed brought the Nation to the brink of tyranny and despotism. Dr. Rush Nutt, planter,...
Dates: March 4, 1809