Antique 5/29/1859 Daily Union Office Letter MARCELLUS EMERY Confederate Support

Antique MAY 29 1859 Daily Union Office Letter MARCELLUS EMERY Confederate Support request sent to E G Flanders Esq. Letter and envelope from the BANGOR DAILY UNION. In the description I have an AI summary of the letter. In very Good vintage condition. On a thin blue paper, looks to have been torn out of a binding.

UNIQUE EARLY CIVIL WAR Confederate supporter. Please see all pictures for the best description.

AI Generated From Image Translate. The provided image is a handwritten political letter from the pre-Civil War era in Maine. Here is the full transcription and a breakdown of its historical context. A desperate effort is being made by Smart & Co to carry the State Convention and to make the Democracy of Maine dance to the tunes they shall play on their Free Soil Abolition fiddles. Will you see to it that your own & neighboring towns, & if possible every town in Piscataquis County are represented by thoroughgoing, unflinching national men.

The question now is, whether the Democracy of Maine shall stand upon a platform that can be endorsed by every State in the Union, or whether they shall start off on another sectional, Wilmot Proviso cruise on which we shall lose another 20,000 of the bone & muscle of our party as we did by Hamlin in 1846. Don't let the grass grow under your feet in this matter. We are up & doing in Penobscot. Let us all put our shoulders to the wheel & the "disorganizers" will be routed, horse foot, & dragoon. Historical Context & Key Figures??? A fiery, pro-slavery/states'-rights Democrat who edited the Bangor Daily Union. During the Civil War, his press was actually destroyed by a mob because of his anti-war, copperhead views. Who was a prominent Maine Democrat. He broke with the party over the extension of slavery and later became Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President. A famous 1846 proposal to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. It deeply divided the Democratic party nationally. In 19th-century political slang, "the Democracy" simply referred to the Democratic Party.

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