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- GLC#
- GLC04717.60-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 March 1871
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- Letter from Gerrit Smith on temperance. To the thoughful and candid of the County of Madison.
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 32.9 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Discusses a local election, which was won by the Anti-dramshop ticket. Still feels despondent, writing: "Nothing, however, at the present time, stands so much in the way of the success of the cause of temperance as the fear cherished by tens of thousands of good men that quitting the Republican for the Anti-dramshop party would result in throwing the nation into the hands of the Democratic party..."
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