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- GLC#
- GLC06204
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1835/04/15
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Title
- to George Pessenger and William P. Varian
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Thanking Pessenger and William P. Varian as representatives of the Democratic Electors of New York's Eleventh Ward for a side of beef, which Jackson says gives him as great if not greater pleasure than many fancier gifts. Pessenger and William P. Varian were butchers. "It has been the aim of my life to secure the happiness and thus to gain the affections of the cottagers of my country. To this end, I have toiled, and that labor might be safe in its earnings a thing impossible when the government is not under the control of the workingmen...." The letter was reprinted in a number of newspapers, notably the Nashville Union 20 May 1835.
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