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CHASE, Salmon P. Three autograph letters signed ("S. P. Chase") to Mr. Lanman, 1 Septemeber 1858, to T. D. Eliot, 24 January 1861, and to Thomas Ewing 15 January 1863. Together 6 pp., 8vo., bottom portion of 1861 letter clipped away, not affecting text.
CHASE WANTS TO "GIVE THE SLAVE STATE FOLKS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BESIDES SECESSION"
Chase's January 1861 letter to T. D. Eliot mentions the secession crisis and the incoming Lincoln administration. "Will the Republicans vote for the New Mexico surrender? I hope not. Deeply am I pained to think it has any countenance for Mass. or Ohio!" He hopes Congress will "provide for early elections in States which have not yet elected," since this would allow the Lincoln administration to "call Congress together soon after the inauguration & would give the Slave State folks something to think about besides secession." He then passes on a (false) rumor--from a source "too reliable I fear though I cannot name" him--that an attack on Washington will occur within the next two weeks. In his 1858 letter he supplies biographical details to the Congressional registrar, and in 1863, thanks Thomas Ewing for a "Carte-portrait of yourself." Together 3 items. (3)
CHASE WANTS TO "GIVE THE SLAVE STATE FOLKS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BESIDES SECESSION"
Chase's January 1861 letter to T. D. Eliot mentions the secession crisis and the incoming Lincoln administration. "Will the Republicans vote for the New Mexico surrender? I hope not. Deeply am I pained to think it has any countenance for Mass. or Ohio!" He hopes Congress will "provide for early elections in States which have not yet elected," since this would allow the Lincoln administration to "call Congress together soon after the inauguration & would give the Slave State folks something to think about besides secession." He then passes on a (false) rumor--from a source "too reliable I fear though I cannot name" him--that an attack on Washington will occur within the next two weeks. In his 1858 letter he supplies biographical details to the Congressional registrar, and in 1863, thanks Thomas Ewing for a "Carte-portrait of yourself." Together 3 items. (3)