Letter, 1848 March 3.

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Letter, 1848 March 3.

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Letter written at Albany to Hugh White. "I hope when the time comes, when Mr. Clay is called on to say whether slavery shall enter our new territory. My Whigs friends will be equally firm with us radicals. Things now look as if there would be several candidates for the presidency in the field, not one of whom will probably be our candidate,-and not one of whom will be elected by the people."

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American Periodical Series I

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