GEORGE WASHINGTON JONES PAPERS, #1837, 1835-1884
Political correspondence and papers of Jones, clerk of the Lincoln County, Tennessee,
court, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Confederate congressman, and member of
the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870. Papers pertain to
both Tennessee politics and national issues. Included is an extract from a letter from the
Honorable Howell Cobb of Georgia, which expresses Cobb's opposition to the reopening of the
slave trade and to government interference in the expansion of slavery into the
territories.