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December 30, 1841-Dated Confidential Letter Detailing Connecticut Democratic Party Efforts to Defeat Whigs, etc.
December 30, 1841-Dated, Confidential Political Letter detailing the Connecticut Democratic Party's efforts to defeat Whigs and Federalists in State Elections, Choice Very Fine.
This confidential Letter of four pages measuring 7.75" x 9.75", written by members of the State Central Committee appointed by the Democratic State Convention, to the person in charge of the Middlesex County Democratic Voting efforts. Consisting of Voter numbers on the first page, and written on the last three pages, is an impassioned plea to increase the numbers polled in Middlesex County so that, in part: "if as large a vote [as from 1840] can now be given, it will be sufficient, not only to elect our State Ticket, but will give us ascendancy in the Legislature." The authors of this Political Tactics Letter, includes Samuel Arnold, an eventual U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Arnold believed that the Whigs are deflated and the Federalists are dangerous, so they mark four particular towns for the Middlesex County Democratic Party to focus their efforts in achieving higher polling rates. A fascinating example in choice condition, boldly written in rich brown ink on very clean wove period paper. A great content Letter of political schemes in the pre-Civil War era as the Democrats, Whigs, and Federalists vie for control of various states and the country. A must-have piece for any student of politics and history.
Samuel Arnold (June 1, 1806 " May 5, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Born in Haddam, Connecticut, Arnold attended the local academy at Plainfield, Connecticut, and Westfield Academy, Massachusetts. He devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits. He acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry, and became owner of a line of schooners operating between New York and Philadelphia. He was, also, for a number of years, president of the Bank of East Haddam. He served as member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851.
Arnold was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (1857-1859). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858. He resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying. He died in Haddam, Connecticut, May 5, 1869. He was interred in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam.

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