Andrew Dickson White letter to Anna M. Jackson

Andrew Dickson White American historian and educator; he was a co-founder of Cornell University and served as its first president. He writes to correct Anna Jackson regarding a statement he made about the cost of emancipating slaves by having the government buy all newborn slaves, a proposal that had been made by Henry Clay, versus the cost of the Civil War. He says that he had remarked that the cost of Clay's proposal was approximately the cost of a fortnight of the war, not a single day of the war.