Vorhees, N.W. [Resolution of New Jersey Delegation]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07863.02 Author/Creator: Vorhees, N.W. Place Written: [Chicago] Type: Autograph note signed Date: 1860/05/16 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 31.6 x 19.9 cm Order a Copy
One manuscript page (in the hand of N. W. Voorhees, Secretary) in which the New Jersey Delegation responds to the Massachusetts Delegation's communication with a resolution of their own, instructing and informing the Delegates from Massachusetts that "William L. Dayton is the first choice of New Jersey, and that they can carry the State with him; and that the Delegation are not prepared at this present time to state what their second and third choice of Candidates may be." Validated as "A true copy," also in Voorhees' hand.
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