Letter from James Buchanan to Gerard Hallock

Letter from James Buchanan to Gerard Hallock
Number of Pages: 
4
Date: 
August 11, 1853

President James Buchanan writes to Gerard Hallock regarding the Presidential Election of 1860 and whether to remove the editor of a "leading Democratic" newspaper for not supporting his administration's policies. "This organ... maintains political doctrines in violation of the Constitution of the United States as expounded by the Supreme Court," as Buchanan explains. Transcript included.

Time Period: 
Location: 
MC 1998.10, B4, F3
Origin: 
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr