Buchanan, James (1791-1868) to James Campbell
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00655.10 Author/Creator: Buchanan, James (1791-1868) Place Written: Wheatland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 October 1856 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 21 x 17 cm. Order a Copy
Writes to U.S. Postmaster General Campbell regarding his decision to delay the appointment of a postmaster for Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for political reasons. Date "17" was overwritten on "16." Docketed as 16th. Written as a candidate in the 1856 presidential election from his estate, Wheatland, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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…Many thanks for your kind note! Upon consultation with friends & indeed it is my [inserted: own] decided judgment to delay the appointment of a Postmaster for Lancaster until after the 4th. November. I shall then suggest the name I consider best. We want a man who will be active & strengthen our party in this County; & I think if we succeed such a man may be easily found. About our success I am sanguine & except for the influence it might have on other States it made no difference whether we had 3 or 4 thousand votes on the one side or the other. I write in haste with company waiting. …
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