Conkling, Roscoe (1829-1888) to C.G. Burke
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01596.06 Author/Creator: Conkling, Roscoe (1829-1888) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 February 1861 Pagination: 4 p. ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses their friendship and his "political fate." Mentions a speech that Burke said was "passionately condemned" which related to the Civil War: "the preservation or partition of a great empire, the fate of a nation the greatest in the future, the world has ever seen." Notes a "sinister purpose" Burke and others have warned him of. Marked "In Confidence." Conkling was then a Republican U.S. representative from New York.
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