John Slidell letters and miscellany, 1844-1861.

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John Slidell letters and miscellany, 1844-1861.

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Letters and miscellany of John Slidell includes a large sequence of photocopied letters to James Buchanan, secretary of state under James Polk and U.S. president from 1857 to 1861. The letters describe Slidell's work as minister to Mexico; the progress of the Mexican-American War; the fate of the Wilmot Proviso, an appropriations bill intended for final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War, in the U.S. Congress; James Buchanan's efforts to secure the Democratic nomination for president in 1856; the Ostend Manifesto, which proposed the purchase of Cuba from Spain in order to extend slavery there; and Slidell's mordantly contemptuous views of President Franklin Pierce and his other political enemies. Among those mentioned in the correspondence are Pierre Soulé, President Martin Van Buren, Stephen Douglas, Henry Johnson, and Thomas Hart Benton. Also included are a group of original letters from Slidell to various correspondents. They include a brief note, dated 1844, presenting Slidell's respects to Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and asking about a vacancy at the consulate at Matamoros, Mexico, for one of his constituents; a letter, dated 1852, discussing the release of John Sidney Thrasher from a Spanish prison; an 1853 letter to Jefferson Davis regarding Pierre Soulé; a letter, dated 1857, to Jacob Thompson, secretary of the interior, concerning Indian Bureau advertisements and their possible publication in the Daily Orleanian and the Louisiana Courier; and a letter, also dated 1857, to Asbury Dickens requesting the proceedings of the court martial of Lieutenant Colonel John Charles Frémont. Other letters include a note, dated 1857, to Asbury Dickens commenting on the condition of the money market in New Orleans; a letter to J.G. Davidson, dated 1858, concerning the debate over the reappointment of William McCullogh as surveyor general of Louisiana and allegations that McCullogh is no longer loyal to the Democratic Party; and a letter written from Paris in 1862 to Judah P. Benjamin recommending a former French army officer for Confederate military service.

146 letters.1 engraving.

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