Evening Post documents, 1852
Publisher: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Evening Post Office
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Notes: Cover title.

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7. A full account of General Scott's controversy with the citizens of New York, growing out of his attempt "to ornament" the battery, in 1817 - embracing letters from General Scott, a letter from Mayor Radcliffe to President Monroe, the President's reply and the comments of contemporaneous journals.--8. Benmjamin F. Butler to Senator Chase, in reply to his letter, dated July 15th, 1852, urging the propriety of nominating a third candidate for the presidency. Letter from Martin Van Buren, ex-President of the United States, read to the Tammany Society at its late celebration on the 5th of July, approving of the nomination of the Baltimore convention. Extract from a more recent letter of Mr. Van Buren to the Young Men's Democratic Union Club of this City.

9. General Scott's writings and speeches against our adopted citizens. General Pierce and the Catholics.--10. Speeches delivered in Tammany Hall, New York City, Sept. 2, 1852, by the Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan; Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois; Hon. John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Robert McLane, of Maryland; Hon. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Willis A. Gorman, of Indiana; also, Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 anf 1799.--11. Speech of Charles Sumner in the United States Senate, on the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
Table of contents: title: 1. Correspondence between General Scott and Wm. L. Marcy, while Secretary of War, in 1846, and letter from Peter B. Porter, Secretary of War in 1828, suspending General Scott from his command.; title: 2-3. Correspondence between General Scott and W.L. Marcy, Secretary of War in 1848, in relation to the transfer of the command of the Army of occupation in Mexico to General Butler.; title: 4-5. Speeches delivered at the mass meeting held at Washington's headquarters, Newburgh, July 26, 1852, by Gen. John A. Dix, John Van Buren, Stephen A. Douglas, John Cochran and others; to which is added Scott's political circular of 1844, giving his opinions on the judiciary, the veto power, rotation in office, the one term principle, land distribution, U.S. Bank, &c.; title: 6. General Pierce on religious tests, embracing his speech in the Constitutional Convention of New Hampshire, and other documents.