New YorkABAA
New YorkABAA
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING AT SKANEATELES ONON. CO. N.Y. caption title
1844WRCAM31133Skaneateles N.Y. 1844. 1p. on bifolium sheet integral leaf filled out for mailing and postmarked. Quarto. Light fold lines. Near fine. This notice announces a Democratic mass meeting at Skaneateles New York on August 24 1844. The featured speaker was the New York senator Silas Wright called by Thomas Hart Benton the "Cato of the Senate" DAB. In 1844 Wright resigned from the Senate and was running an ultimately successful campaign for governor of New York. The notice also gives instructions on train service to the meeting location. This copy of the meeting announcement was sent to the noted jurist Charles James Folger who would go on to become Treasury Secretary under Chester A. Arthur. In 1844 Folger had just been appointed a judge at the Court of Common Pleas Ontario County New York marking the beginning of his career in public service. ANB 8 pp.166-67. DAB XX pp.565-67. unknown books
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