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AMERICAN POLITICS]. WEBSTER, Daniel (1782-1852), Secretary of State . Autograph letter signed ("Danl Webster") to Mr. Hall, Marshfield, [MA], 30 July 1840. 1¼ pages, 4to . Senator Webster states that he will be unable to attend a political meeting in Vermont, but wishes his fellow Whigs good luck: "Genl. Wilson tells me he shall be among you. He is a very able & popular speaker, & your people will be pleased with him...May you have a good meeting, & may favourable consequences result to the cause!" -- CUSHING, Caleb (1800-1879), Governor of Massachusetts, Attorney General . Autograph letter signed ("C Cushing") to an unidentified recipient, Newburyport, [MA], 28 September 1839. 2½ pages, 4to . ON THE ANNEXATION OF CANADA: "In all this matter of our British relations, I think the public mind is poisoned by the undue circulation & influence of the New York newspapers...Englishmen are editors or sub-editors in several of the papers that profess to be American. New York lives, thrives & has its being in the importation of British goods...in the blindness of their stupidity, the great Wall Street presses have abused & undervalued the Canadians...& done every thing they could to rivet the chains of the Canadians, though the independence of the latter & their annexation to the United States would of itself double the wealth & importance of New York. With time, however, I cannot but hope that the whole country will regard the question as we do...I trust we may live to see the stars & stripes floating over the citadel of Quebec." -- OTIS, Harrison Gray (1765-1848), Senator . Autograph letter signed ("H G Otis") to George Bliss, Boston, 20 October 1818. 1 page, 4to . The president of the infamous HARTFORD CONVENTION, endeavors to clear the names of its Federalist creators: "It has occurred to me, that justice to the states represented in the late Hartford Convention, seems to require that the private journal of their proceedings, should be deposited in some place, to which access may be had...we ought not...be indifferent to the effects of an enormous public opinion on this subject, upon the present age & upon posterity..." -- GREELEY, Horace (1811-1872), Editor of the New York Tribune . Autograph letter signed ("Horace Greeley") to W.H.L. Bowes, New York, 21 September 1855. 2 pages, 8vo . Greeley plans to do little lecturing so he can "spend most of the season at Washington watching the business of the Kansas struggle" (in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act) -- BENTON, Thomas Hart (1782-1858), Senator . Autograph Free Frank ("Free. Thomas H. Benton") on a portion of an address leaf, n.p., n.d. 1 page, an oblong . -- LAWRENCE, William Beach, Lt. Governor of Rhode Island . Autograph letter signed, Newport, 25 November 1872. 4 pages, 8vo . AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTES FOR GRANT. A detailed letter on campaign politics in the reelection of U.S. Grant, stating that: "The negroes are naturally disposed to support those who are in power & who they invest with superior dignity on account of the possession of power." Together 6 items . (6)