Box 10
Contains 79 Results:
Box 10
A. Montgomery, Davenport, Iowa, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington, D.C., 1848 September 1
Whig Presidential ticket of Filmore and Taylor; slave question; mention of Cass & Butler; establishment of a new political paper the Democratic Banner. 3 pp. ALS.
G. Volney Dorsey, Piqua, Ohio, to Henry S. Foote, Washin[gton], 1848 September 2
State of political parties around Piqua, Ohio; Strength of the Whig Party in District #4; Whigs as antislavery men; views of Moses Corwin, a candidate for Congress from Ohio; free soil party in Dorsey's country; strength of the Democrats and their support of Cass and Butler; mention of General Taylor. 2 pp. ALS.
D.C. Glenn, Jackson, to Henry S. Foote, Washington, D.C., 1848 September 4
Suggestion of the Executive Committee that a pamphlet be written about General Taylor; mention of Polk. 2 pp. ALS.
Asher M. Ruggles, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Henry S. Foote, Washington, D.C., 1848 September 5
Whig Party in Connecticut and General Taylor's campaign there; candidacy of Cass and Butler; Whigs in Ohio and Pennsylvania; slavery and tariff issues; mention of Van Buren. 4 pp. ALS.
John P. Heiss, New York, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington, D.C., 1848 September 8
Arrangements for payment of some of the Union's outstanding debts; richness of the ore in heiss' mine. 2 pp. ALS.
J. H. Harrison, Freeport, to Thomas Ritchie., 1848 September 8
Expected majority vote for Cass in Harrison's area. 1 p. ALS.
Caleb Roscoe, [illeg.], to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City, D.C., 1848 September 12
Questions submitted in regard to voter qualification in Southern and slaveholding states. 2 pp. ALS.
Joe[eph] Holding to Thomas Ritchie., 1848 September 22
Scope and Contents
States' rights vs. Congressional power; mention of the Wilmot Proviso; abolition of slavery; support for General Cass and for Butler; views of General Cass on slavery; included is a poem by Holding " A descriptive peice on Cass & Butler". 8 pp. ALS & Ms. Poem.
A. G. Allen, Navy Dept., to Thomas Ritchie, Washington, D.C., 1848 September 26
Request for a list of delegates to the New Jersey state convention; political pamphlet about Case and Taylor; distribution of the proposed pamphlet in Tennessee; Cass' predicted victory in Ohio. 1 p. ALS.
James Maguire, Washington, to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 October 5
Whig handbill by John A. Rogers which slandered Cass; Maguire's attempt to disprove Rogers' charges by citing a statement from General Charles Gratiot. 3 pp. ALS.
B.B. French, Washington, to Thomas Ritchie, October 19[?], 1848
French's health and inability to write regularly for the Union; prospects of electing Cass and Butler and their predicted success in the South and New England. 2 pp. ALS.
Thomas J. Kilby, Suffolk, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City, 1848 October 20
Desire by the kilby family to obtain a pension from Congress for the services rendered by their father, john Kilby, during the War for Independence; account of John Kilby's actions during that war. 3 pp. ALS.
Rob[ert] McLane, Baltimore, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City., 1848 October 23
Ritchie's call to the late President of the B. & O. R.R.; possibility of Delaware voting Democratic; letter of McLane's to be published in the Delaware Gazette; expected victory in Pennsylvania. 1 p. ALS.
John Lynch, Richmond, to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 October 23
J.C. Thronton, Columbia, to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 October 25
Acquisition of Cuba and its effect on Cass' campaign; mention of slavery questions. 1 p. ALS.
Andrew J. Dorn, Florida, Montegomery Co., New York, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City, D.C., 1848 October 27
Scope and Contents
Election of Cass & Butler; feeling in New York towards these two candidates; mention of Congressman Bowlin from Missouri; composition of the Barnburner faction in New York that is headed by Martin van Buren. Enclosed also is a letter October 28, 1848 from Dorn signed :Late from mexico" to Ritchie re a Barnburners' meeting he attended and his subsequent belief that "this free soil party is to be of very short duration". 3 pp. ALS.
J. L. to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 October 30
Enclosing a letter from W. T. Young, Lynchburg, to W.T. & Thomas Ritchie, Jr. about fraud by the Whig Party in Virginia on the eve of the Presidential election. 4 pp. Al.
Arthur R. Crozier[?], Knoxville, to [Thomas Ritchie?], 1848 Octoboer 30
Efforts of Democrats in Tennessee to elect Cass and butler; voting predicted in Eastern states. 3 pp. ALS.
Robert McLane, Balt[imore], to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City, D.C., 1848 November 3
Scope and Contents
Predicted election results in Baltimore and surrounding county. Enclosed is a printed circular "Address of the Democratic City Convention, to the Democracy of Maryland" signed by Henry S. Sanderson, W.A. Stewart, and John Carson. 2 pp. ALS. & Broadside.
J. N. Bradbury, Augusta, [Maine], to Thomas Ri[t]chie, Washington, D.C., 1848 November 5
Whig efford in Maine; reference to a circular that was distributed around the state. 1 p. ALS.
Samuel D. Patterson, Philadelphia, to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 November 17
Reference to an article written by Patterson. 1 p. ALS.
J.S. Barbour, Culpeper, to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 November 21
Death of Barbour's son, Calhoun, and desire that a notice be inserted in the Union. 2 pp. ALS.
Philip Berry, Brattleboro, Vt., to Thomas Ritchie, 1848 December 8
Scope and Contents
Just published pamphlet with some comments about the Wilmot Proviso; publisher may send Ritchie more for distribution; refers to "Sophisms of the Protective policy"; wishes it were published in tract form for country wide distribution to promote free trade; attitude in New England towards commerce; need for international free trade association. 8 pp. ALS.
Thomas Ritchie to [William L Marcy}, [December 1848]
Asks for additional accounts from California, especially about Gov. Mason, Stevenson, or Marcy's son. Including Marcy's reply to the effect he has no additional information from Mason or his son but that Stevenson wrote he will be leaving for the mines. 3 pp. ALS.