Spring Auction 2018
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/26/2018
ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, February 25, 1852. Letter to Colonel Frazer, in full: "I was disappointed in the expectation of meeting you here on Tuesday last. Can't you come up some evening & remain over night? I will be in Harrisburg tomorrow night and after that will be at home. I want to talk with you. It is a matter for grave reflection, whether we shall break up the convention if the majority back the Baltimore delegation, or put up with the wrong. My present belief is that we should revolt. The insolence of Mr. Buchanan & his faction will in the end destroy the Democratic party, unless the strong hand is raised to crush him and save it. Of his nomination at Baltimore there is little danger, but his motives here, at home, must be taught decency & that can only be done by strikes. You will of course be in Harrisburg at the conventions." Cameron adds a brief postscript: "I thank you for James letter. I am in strong hopes that he is a redeemed man." Affixed to a slightly larger sheet. In fine condition, with several intersecting folds. Buchanan campaigned quietly for the 1852 Democratic presidential nomination, but his public letter criticizing the Wilmot Proviso, which proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War, angered slavery opponents like Cameron who questioned Buchanan's morals and sympathy towards the South. At the 1852 Democratic National Convention, Buchanan won the support of many southern delegates but failed to win the two-thirds support needed for the presidential nomination, which went to Franklin Pierce.
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