Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888 to C.G. Burke

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GLC#
GLC01596.06-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 5, 1861
Author/Creator
Conkling, Roscoe, 1829-1888
Title
to C.G. Burke
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Language
English
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Discusses their friendship and his "political fate." Mentions a speech that Burke said was "passionately condemned" which related to the Civil War: "the preservation or partition of a great empire, the fate of a nation the greatest in the future, the world has ever seen." Notes a "sinister purpose" Burke and others have warned him of. Marked "In Confidence." Conkling was then a Republican U.S. representative from New York.

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