Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Letters between E.B. Morgan, Whig candidate for Congress in 1850 , and party members including Washington Hunt, General Scott, R.H. Duell and others prominent in both state and national politics, and his brother Christopher Morgan, himself a former Representative. A few letters concerning Morgan's successful fight for election in 1852 ., 1850, 1852
File — Box: 1, Folder: A
Scope and Contents
Oct. 16, 1850, Horace Greeley to Morgan. "I feel sure we shall beat this time.... You must help us for land reform in Congress.... I have nothing else to ask."
Oct. 26, 1850, Morgan to a committee composed of Hiram Plumb, James Lester, Nathaniel Vilas, William Kevill, setting forth stand on Fugitive Slave Law - "one of the most cruel and wicked laws ever enacted by a legislative body" -...
Dates:
1850; 1852
Tallies, votes, conference minutes, lists of prominent Whigs, party notices, etc.
File — Box: 1, Folder: B
Dates:
1840-1888.