Papers, 1846-1856.

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Papers, 1846-1856.

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Papers, 1846-1856, consist of three 1846 letters that Lomax wrote to his sister Eliza while serving in Mexico. He discussed the land, the people and military life. Also included is a muster roll for his company. Scrapbook, 1856, documents Lomax's bets on the 1856 presidential election on the inside front cover of the volume, and the political careers of Millard Fillmore and James Buchanan, especially as related to the 1856 presidential election. There is an index to both Fillmore's and Buchanan's positions on various issues at the beginning of the volume. The major issues that overlap for both candidates are: abolition petitions, Texas annexation and dismemberment, slavery, the Compromise of 1850, and nearly every political issue in the presidential campaign, including Fillmore's speeches at Albany and Rochester N.Y., his position on foreign immigration, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the American Party platform, etc., and Buchanan's positions on the Ostend Manifesto, veto power, Cuba, Calhoun's resolutions, the Democratic Party platform, etc. Clippings seem to have come from both the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and the Columbus (Ga.) Times and Sentinel.

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