Number of Pages
5
Date
August 20, 1841
Senator James Buchanan writes to Stimpson Harvey Woodward, an entrepreneur in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, regarding Whigs politics and the Bank of the United States. Buchanan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, claims that "the truth is the Whig party have never acquired power without abusing it." Buchanan also refers to William W. Irwin, Mayor of Pittsburgh, and President John Tyler. Transcript included.
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Location
I-Friends-2007-2
Origin
Gift of Friends of the Library
