G.K. Chase letter, 1876 Nov. 20.

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G.K. Chase letter, 1876 Nov. 20.

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Letter from New Orleans, La., to Judge Edwards Pierrepont discusses the disputed presidential election of 1876, fear for the victory of Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden, and predicts that Democrats in New Orleans are encouraging anti-Northern feelings and intend violence.

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Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones), 1814-1886

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Samuel Jones Tilden (February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886) was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed election of 1876. Tilden is the only individual to win an outright majority of the popular vote in a United States presidential election but lose the election. Tilden was born into a wealthy family in New Lebanon, New York. Attracted to politics at a young age, he became a protégé of Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States. Af...

Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892

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Lawyer, of New York, N.Y., U.S. attorney general, and ambassador to Great Britain. From the description of Papers of Edwards Pierrepont, 1847-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81338859 A prominent New York lawyer and politician and Democrat who was against secession and supportive of the use of force to protect the Union. President Lincoln appointed him to try the cases of those who had been imprisoned in the North for suspected disloyalty to the Union cause and after the...

Chase, G. K.

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Democratic Party (La.)

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