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Sold Date: 11/04/2011
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Historic and AWESOME political content in this detailed 3 page stampless folded letter written March 22, 1848 by James R. Doolittle - State Senator from Wisconsin, attending a political convention (see below) in Warsaw, New York and sent to the honorable Charles A. Loomis "of the Senate" in Lansing, Michigan.

This letter discusses at length the nominating convention for Zachary Taylor for President at Baltimore, Maryland and then launches in policy discussions on the Mexican War, Van Buren Doctrine, French Revolution and also contains a news clipping from a convention at Utica (about the writer - Senator Doolittle) - and he references the clipping in the letter!

Here's a transcription of this letter:

"Private" Warsaw, March 22, 1848

Dear Charles,

I have not written you since I sent you a very short letter from Buffalo. You have of course watched our proceedings with some interest - from our relations hereof - I feel at liberty with you to speak very freely and frankly and hope you will do the same, for if we cannot trust each other we cannot trust ourselves. At utica, there were about 40 delegates who were ready to niminate Taylor outright, fully conscienous as we now are that we are in the midst of a political crisis, when every old issue is settled and new state of things is about to grow out of the existing war with Mexico (and which view is fortified by a new element which is just now about to be thrown into the political (stifling ?) the French Revolution). The crisis demands a sort of (unserrection ?) power in the Administration of the General Government which the (?) and experience of a mere politician cannot give. It calls for a man (underlined) to administer our affairs who has got a strength of character morally mentally and above all who can fill the hearts of the people with enthusiasm and with unlimited confidence. If as is now likely Europe is to be distrubed not only in Frnace but every where with revolution, we need at the head of our affairs a man of strneght and character abroad to be respected if not feared. But enough of this. Our delegation will most likley be rejected at Baltimore, If our man shall be nominated somebody on (?) possibly Taylor & Dix. If we are to be received with the Croswell Crew, it will be a rejection and producce the same result. If we are admitted and the Croswellites rejected we shall be placed in an embassassing predicament after we are then overruled. I think the two third rule a good rule for a minority to work with, and it would be but fair for New York to have the benefit of that rule to offset against what was done against her once, ot make the game even.

You may say Taylor has been a whig? If he is a whig, why would he not be accept a whig nomination when he certainly posseses a popularity which would ensure his election. The fact is he is but accidentally thrown into association with the whigs not having voted at all for a good many years and where the question of his nomination for the Presidency causes up he could not get rid of a whig nomination except by beleiving that he would not accept a party nomination. The whigs upon that announcement regard him as a man who will go for the Constitution and the high interests of the country without regard to mere party which is the true doctrine of the demoncratic party precisley the doctorine of Jackson. If the Democracy nominates him, not as a strick partisan but as athe man whom the present emergency calls for, and pass on resolution declaring the (Treasury ?) question settled the bank question settled the tariff question settled and our views on the Mexican question some what similar to the sentiment contained in the enclosed, our views in reference to the European matters and interferance here and give a strength and power and moral force to the administration which we have not had since Jackson. Another thing in this desultory careless conversational letter John Van Buren and certain ones are holering still for Martin at Utica for one I was determined not to recognize tha...