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- GLC#
- GLC09028.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 March 1857
- Author/Creator
- Smith, W.T., fl. 1857
- Title
- to James Buchanan
- Place Written
- Warrenton, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Smith writes to President Buchanan as a friend of Charles F. Suttle (owner of fugitive slave Anthony Burns), to support U.S. Marshal Watson Freeman and District Attorney for Massachusetts Benjamin F. Hallett for reappointment. States that Suttle desires an interview with the president. Marked as a copy.
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