(PRESIDENTS 1856) Shepard Lorenzo B Telegram concerning Tam

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(PRESIDENTS--1856.) Shepard, Lorenzo B. Telegram concerning Tammany Hall's nomination of Buchanan, sent via Morse's telegraph. One manuscript page, 8 x 5 inches, on a printed Morse's American Telegraph blank; folds, mount remnants on verso. New York, 6 June 1856

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This telegram was sent by Shepard as chair of the Democratic Party convention in Cincinnati. He writes to Joseph Rose of the comptroller's office in New York: "Call a mass meeting at Tammany Wednesday evening, ratify the nomination of Jas Buchanan." The message was received and transcribed at the Morse office in New York.