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32. Office-holders. The evidence of the select committee on resolution offered by Mr. Stanly, of North Carolina, to inquire into the conduct of office-holders under Mr. Polk. September 30, 1850. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed.

33. Boston, October 30, 1854 [electronic resource] : Hon. Charles Allen, Sir--On my return home, after some days' absence, I have been shown a copy of the Boston daily advertiser of Friday last, containing an extract from the Worcester spy, purporting to be a sketch of a speech recently made by you. I am further informed that you applied the remarks to me by name. ... To the first statement I reply, I never subscribed a dollar to the fund to establish the Boston chronicle. ... The assertion that I was one of the body guards of Sims, or any other fugitive, on his return to slavery, I pronounce false ...

36. To the Republicans of Massachusetts [electronic resource] : The Republican State Committee need less money than usual during the year 1859, to carry on the campaign; but still upwards of a thousand dollars have been advanced ... and more is needed ... to secure a Republican House of Representatives. To retain our organization in Massachusetts, and to perfect it as far as possible for the presidential contest of next year, to furnish material aid elsewhere when needed, and to circulate documents in those parts of the country where a knowledge of our principles is required to ensure success in the battle of 1860, we make our annual appeal to the Republicans of the state. ...

40. Presidential campaign, 1868 [electronic resource] : Rooms of the finance committee, Grant and Colfax Boys in Blue, Astor House, N.Y., August 15, 1868. To [blank] Dear Sir: Believing as we do that the result of the election in this state depends in a great measure on the course taken by the Boys in Blue, a state central committee has been appointed for the purpose of organizing the soldiers and sailors in this state into clubs and companies, in every Assembly district throughout the state. ...