Van Buren, John, 1810-1866 to Alfred Edmund Burr

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GLC02925.21
GLC#
GLC02925.21-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
March 10, 1860
Author/Creator
Van Buren, John, 1810-1866
Title
to Alfred Edmund Burr
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25.2 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Van Buren, a Democratic party leader from New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "the Democrats of New York & I believe of the Union appreciate fully, & are warmly interested in the contest upon which you are entering. The principles of Democracy are the same throughout the Union: they are eminently conservative & National ... in opposition to Fanaticism, Sectionalism & Disunion ...Connecticut has the honor ... to engage in the preliminary struggle - She has an army of steady courageous, & tried men with a gallant leader at their head - The eyes of the Union are upon her ..." Van Buren was the son of former President Martin Van Buren.

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