Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward L. Pierce, May 21, 1854

Washington, May 21,1854.

My Dear Mr. Pierce: I enclose a copy of an Address to the People of Ohio with the signatures already obtained. I will telegraph you on Monday or Tuesday the names of other signers and the despatch will reach you I suppose as soon if not sooner than this note.

Please call at once on Col. Schouler¹ and have the Address put in type with all the signatures affixed as telegraphed; and have slips furnished to the other papers. If the Gazette folks demur at all to publication — which I do not at all expect, call on some other paper — the Times or the Columbian.

A Public Meeting should be held to denounce the rascality without delay.

Yours truly,

[SALMON P. CHASE.]

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¹ William Schouler, the father of the historian James Schouler, was at this time one of the editors of the Cincinnati Gazette.

SOURCE: Diary and correspondence of Salmon P. Chase, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 261