Washburn, Israel, 1813-1883 to Francis Preston Blair

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GLC#
GLC03209.23-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
25 March 1857
Author/Creator
Washburn, Israel, 1813-1883
Title
to Francis Preston Blair
Place Written
Orono, Maine
Pagination
3 p. : envelope : free frank Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Maine Representative Washburn writes to Blair, former editor of the Washington, D.C. newspaper The Globe. Recommends George M. Weston (possibly Augusta, Maine lawyer and author George Melville Weston) for the editorial position of a Republican newspaper Blair is organizing in Washington, D.C. States that Weston was chief editor of Democratic Maine newspaper The Augusta Age when "Democracy meant something besides slavery."

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