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National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 10, no. 50, whole no. 518 (May 9, 1850)]

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains a speech by Senator Salmon Portland Chase and miscellaneous other reports. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American...

GLC08875.22

to Edward Chase

Writes to his brother, a lawyer in Lockport, New York, about his journey from Washington, D.C. to Cincinnati, Ohio. Laments his undesirable traveling companions among whom was a woman convict. "A woman too - who had been committed for Infanticide...

GLC05494.01

to William Evarts

Recounts a private conversation with the Secretary of State William H. Seward. Discusses presidential politics. Reports that Salmon P. Chase has withdrawn from the election. Remarks, "Mr. Lincoln has the people; there is no doubt of this; but he...

GLC05603.01.02

to William T. Coggeshall

Explains his resignation as Secretary of the Treasury in President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. States of himself "No man has labored more earnestly than I have to promote the welfare of the country, and I cannot see on looking back how I would have...

GLC05639

to Jehu Glancy Jones

Chase, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, replies to a letter from Jones, a judge and former United States Representative from Pennsylvania. States that his own acquaintances in Philadelphia are nearly completely social. Expresses...

GLC05677.01