Charles Parsons Chandler political correspondence, 1857

Includes letters of: Edward Kent discussing the desirability of placing Governor Hamlin back in the Senate and thus risk the breakup of the party; H.C. Prentiss; Edwin Noyes discussing an act authorizing the consolidation of Maine railroads; Stephen Lowell; H.G.C. Case; C.H.B. Woodbury discussing the selection of Hamlin as U.S. Senator, with some mention of Lot Morrill and F.O.J. Smith; Nathaniel Chamberlain discussing Hamlin’s selection and attempts to defeat liquor laws; Charles J. Talbot discussing the removal of Judge Woodbury Davis from the Supreme Judicial Court by the legislature; George M. Freeman; A.S. Patten; James S. Wiley; John H. Rice; Silas Hardy, Winchendon, Massachusetts; discussing “the political crisis”; Asa Getchell discussing politics generally and the selection of Joseph S. Munroe as Executive councilor, in particular; Hiram Chapman; Joseph B. Hall; C.H.B. Woodbury assessing a levy of four dollars upon those “who enjoy the favor and patronage of (Republican) party”; W.H. Atwood; (A.M.) Robinson commenting upon the post-elector discord within the Republican party and the “queer yoking” of Hannibal Hamlin and F.O.J. Smith; Moses Parsons; Samuel S. Fessenden; H. Loring; Annawan, Henry County, Illinois discussing national politics, the financial panic in Maine, and the fertile farming conditions in Illinois; Joseph H. Drummond; Alden Jackson; S.I. Kimball; George Humphrey; and William H. Trafton.