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to Nahum Capen

Written and signed by Varina Davis, for her husband. Discusses the founding and failure of the "first Confederacy" and the "dispersion of His chosen people." Davis argues that if their example had been followed, perhaps there would not have been a...

GLC05508.083

to Nahum Capen

Discusses Capen's book, The History of Democracy, and mentions people to whom he has sent it, including members of the press who have responded favorably to it. Comments that although he is doing well in England, he is looking forward to the end of...

GLC02658

to Nahum Capen

Less than a month after being appointed Secretary of War, Stanton makes a thinly-veiled attack on Lincoln's economic policies.
Excerpt:
"No public man, in times like these, can fail to have both his words and acts misunderstood & any one is...

GLC00008

to Nahum Capen re: politics in Indiana and Ohio

[vice presidents]

GLC02512.04