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Box 10

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Andrew J. Dorn, Florida, Montegomery Co., New York, to Thomas Ritchie, Washington City, D.C., 1848 October 27

 File — Box: 10, Folder: 602
Identifier: id110281
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1848 October 27