Letter from Simon Cameron to Reah Frazer

Simon Cameron writes to Reah Frazer, an attorney in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and requests copies of James Buchanan's speeches against the war, presumably the Mexican-American War. With them, Cameron explains that southern senators will demolish "the old sage." Cameron, a Pennsylvania politician and businessman, served in the US Senate from 1845 to 1849 as a Democrat and later switched to the Republican party.