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Quarto, 3 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, hole from seal opening, no loss of text, else in very good, clean, and legible condition.1840 An enthusiast for the presidential candidacy of William Henry Harrison, recording a "chat" with "Old Tip" on the campaign trail.
"My Dear and Worthy Harrisonian,
… It gave me great pleasure to hear that my old friends in Somerset appear to be Wide Awake and not found napping at so important a crisis as this is – or these Van Ruinous times which we at present are obliged to labour under. However I trust and hope that we shall be able to throw off the yoke which has been a Burthen to this County for several year, I say do your duty in Old Pennsylvania. Don't be disgraced by giving or rather suffering the vote to go for Van. If you exert yourselves I know you have the power. I say then pick your flint and never give up till the enemy is Conquered – and the Country restored to What it was in Good old Democratic times.
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