ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 3, 1848. Letter to John Harris, in full: “My official duties have been so pressing that I have not before found time to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 17th inst. Please accept my grateful thanks for your kind congratulations at my nomination for the Vice Presidency. It was unlooked for at this time, though I had some faint hopes when you so generously volunteered for me in 1844. Be assured that kindness is not forgotten. The free soil question is giving us some trouble, but yet we are confident of carrying this state. Whigs will see that the only question is between Cass & Taylor, and they will never throw away their votes to secure the election of Cass.” In very good to fine condition, with light creasing and intersecting folds. The presidential election of 1848 occurred just three months after this letter was written, with Whig running mates Zachary Taylor and Fillmore outlasting the Democratic tandem of Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler. Cass’s support of popular sovereignty caused many Northern Democrats to abandon the party and join the Free Soil camp led by former President Martin Van Buren, whose hostility towards slavery and Cass granted Taylor and Fillmore favorable poling results in many Northern states. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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