Washburn, Israel, Jr. (1813 - 1883) to Francis Preston Blair
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03209.23 Author/Creator: Washburn, Israel, Jr. (1813 - 1883) Place Written: Orono, Maine Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 25 March 1857 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope : free frank ; 20.3 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy
Maine Representative Washburn writes to Blair, former editor of the Washington, D.C. newspaper The Globe. Recommends George M. Weston (possibly Augusta, Maine lawyer and author George Melville Weston) for the editorial position of a Republican newspaper Blair is organizing in Washington, D.C. States that Weston was chief editor of Democratic Maine newspaper The Augusta Age when "Democracy meant something besides slavery."
Washburn also states that Weston wrote the book "Poor Whites of the South."
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