- GLC#
- GLC02509.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 16, 1856
- Author/Creator
- Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
- Title
- to Nathaniel P. Banks
- Place Written
- St. Albans, Vermont
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 23 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Congratulates him on his "success in helping achieve the first victory which the North has won over the South since 1808, when the slave trade with Africa was abolished. I might better say, the first victory of freedom over Slavery since the Declaration of Independence -- for there was no fight in 1808." Banks was a member of Congress from Massachusetts. In 1856 he declined the presidential nomination of the American party.
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