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Campaign funds—United States

340. 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 ...

394. 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. ...