Record Data
Source citation
“Vermont Negroes and Wool,” New York Herald, December 8, 1860, p. 7: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Herald
Newspaper: Headline
Vermont Negroes and Wool
Newspaper: Page(s)
7
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
VERMONT NEGROES AND WOOL. – The State of Vermont has refused to repeal her Personal Liberty bill, but she has since then been compelled to submit to a repeal in the price of wool. This staple, which is her chief product, since Lincoln’s election, has declined from ten to fifteen cents per pound – a reduction of half a million dollars on one year’s production in that State alone.
