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Arthur Pendleton Bagby

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Slavery/Abolition	A commercial convention focusing on the slave trade is meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi	05/10/1859 to 05/18/1859
Foreign	In Paris, the French Loan called to fund with Austria is massively over-subscribed	05/17/1859
Business/Industry	The Southern Commercial Convention is meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi with slavery high on the agenda	05/09/1859 to 05/19/1859

Letter	Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Canisius, May 17, 1859	05/17/1859
Newspaper	New York Times, “Democratic Preparations for 1860,” May 17, 1859	05/17/1859