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to Major General Henry Dearborn

Report of the U.S. defeat at Queenstown. " ...as I stand prominently responsible for some of these consequences, I beg leave to explain to you...and through you, to my Country, the situation and circumstances in which I have had to act...I shall...

GLC09027

to George W. Featherstonhaugh

Asks about acquiring "a quantity of tares" and mentions that "poor [Henry] Clay is quite low-spirited." Van Rensselaer cast the deciding ballot for John Quincy Adams in the 1825 House vote for President (1824 election) held shortly after this letter...

GLC02505.40