Printed circular letter sent by the Committee of Correspondence and Vigilance, one page, 10.75 x 16.5, September 30, 1840. In part: "No tales seem to be too false to be invented…a Committee of Members of Congress remaining in Washington during the recess, not to do anything connected with the business of Legislation, but for the sole and avowed purpose of using the franking privilege as an electioneering engine, and through the Post Office Department make the Government itself auxiliary to their effort to overthrow those who administer it, and subject all its departments to personal ends and more flagrant abuses. We learn from an authentic source, that the electioneering papers folded in the Folding Room of the House of Representatives, for the Chairman of that Committee, by persons paid out of the Treasury, and enveloped in the Public stationary during the Session of Congress and since, largely exceed five hundred thousand in numbers." The circular has a handwritten postscript at the conclusion, and the secretarial signatures of seven committee members. In fine condition.
