Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Simon Cameron to William P. Fessenden, June 15, 1864

Harrisburg, June 15, 1864.

My Dear Sir, — I strove hard to renominate Hamlin, as well for his own sake as for yours, but failed only because New England, especially Massachusetts, did not adhere to him.

Johnson will be a strong candidate for the people, but in the contingency of death, I should greatly prefer a man reared and educated in the North. 1 hope you will come this way going home.

Truly yours,
Simon Cameron.
Hon. W. P. Fessenden.

SOURCE: Charles Eugene Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, p. 463

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